GitButler's Annual Open Source Pledge Report

Last year, GitButler was one of the first companies to join Sentry in it's Open Source Pledge, an effort to encourage organizations that depend on open source software to give back and help with OSS sustainability.

As we said in our initial post last year when joining the project, we're proud to help open source become more sustainable and support the projects we've depended on.

The guidelines of the pledge are to donate $2000 per full time developer that you employ to open source projects, organizations or maintainers.

Last year we had an average of 5 full time developers, which works out to an annual pledge of $10k USD.

In 2024-2025, we donated:

• $6,000 to the Tauri project (through GitHub sponsors)
• $3,000 to the Svelte project ($250/mo through OpenCollective)
• $1,050 to our dependency tree via Thanks.dev

This works out to $2010 per developer re-investment in the Open Source projects and libraries that we use to build GitButler.

We also directly sponsor the GitOxide project heavily, but as we're actively directing the bug fixes and feature development, it's not counted according to the pledge guidelines.

If you want to know more about our feelings around the future of Open Source and the reasoning behind our joining the pledge, check out my talk at WAD World Congress in Berlin last year:

We continue to hope that if you're a company that is likewise standing on the shoulders of all of this amazing Open Source software to build whatever it is that you're building, you'll join us in joining the Open Source Pledge or otherwise supporting the developers that you clearly depend on.

Speaking of which, the Open Source Pledge just yesterday published a blog post highlighting us (well, me), including very old photos of me and my origin story. Check it out:

A very nice story about me and GitButler, from the Open Source Pledge team