It would be hard to view it any other way without the devs talking about it, which i am sure they will. The fact that it is all open source just makes me doubt that there is anything nefarious about it. I have recently been thinking about why potcoin doesn't try to support some type of national organizations that are for reforming current laws. So seeing this today kinda made me happy. There is no reason to not contribute to a good cause, or 1% donation to charity 1% goes to maintaining the coin(which is more like a premine if you really want to split hairs, but i still don't see anything intrinsically wrong with this). As long as the devs are honest with the coins. It will make or break the coin if they go this route. They will either be transparent and gain mucho respect or be shady and lose a lot of the community. Like i said, i doubt anything sinister is meant by this.