Yep it is open source code, but there is no need to show disrespect for the developer so blatantly
People talk about decrypting the hard-coded encrypted entry, people constantly ask about the patreon code but are incapable of looking for the correct entry in the source-code, so I decided to provide this, the dev can quite easily replace that with some other way of checking in the very next update.
There are various other ways than a hard-coded entry to do this, the dev could, if he really wanted to, compile a public and a patreon-only version. Which would still probably get leaked, but would at least be slightly more difficult.
And I gotta be honest, I mainly just got annoyed by the fact that some stuff that is patreon flagged wasn't flagged in the patch notes as such, and that even some of the oldest patreon-only stuff is still gated instead of being on a rotation.