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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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