For the past two years (2023, 2024) I have been sharing annual sponsorship breakdowns for komorebi. komorebi is published under the Komorebi License (building on the foundation laid by the PolyForm Project), an educational source license which does not permit any kind of commercial use. In January 2025 I introduced the long-requested Individual Commercial Use License (ICUL), which will also be factored in to this year's financial breakdown. The Numbers In 2025 I received $12,070 for my work on komorebi. SourceTotalSubscribers (EOY) ICUL$787795 GitHub Sponsors$362967 Ko-Fi$3584 YouTube$2066328 GitHub Sponsors Within a couple of months of the availability of the ICUL, the number of license holders had surpassed the number of GitHub Sponsors, and this trend shows no sign of reversing. Generally I am happy with this because I would much rather that the majority of funding for komorebi come from corporate expense reimbursements than the salaries of workers. In the last quarter of 2025 I st…
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