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Funding and license

Two optional fields in nimbus.extension.json say how to support you and under what terms the code is offered.

{
  "funding": [{ "url": "https://github.com/sponsors/acme", "label": "GitHub Sponsors" }],
  "license": "MIT"
}
  • funding: 1 to 8 entries of { "url", "label" }. The url is required: https with a host, no user name or password, at most 2048 characters. The label is optional, 1 to 64 characters. No two entries share a url.
  • license: an SPDX license expression such as MIT or Apache-2.0 OR MIT, at most 128 characters.

Checks

Section titled “Checks”

A malformed field is never a runtime error: every gateway ignores it and extension info shows (invalid, ignored). But sign refuses it (exit 2, manifest <field> is invalid: <reason>; fix it before signing) and publish refuses it with ERR_REGISTRY_MANIFEST_INVALID, so a bad field cannot reach a registry through Nimbus’s own tools. Nimbus never verifies that a link works or that a license is true.

What users see

Section titled “What users see”
Terminal window
nimbus extension sponsor acme/notion-tasks

sponsor prints every link and, on a terminal, asks Open <host> in your browser? [y/N] before opening one (--index <n> picks which). Nimbus takes no payment and sees none. The desktop app shows no funding yet.

If someone clones your extension with --publisher, your funding links are removed from their copy, so they cannot be mistaken for theirs.

Reference

Section titled “Reference”