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The Tiling Window Manager for Windows

I made $901.49 in my first month selling commercial use software licenses. This $901.49 came from 14 customers, 6 of whom purchased monthly license subscriptions and 8 of whom purchased annual license subscriptions. January 2025 sales overview My most popular piece of software, komorebi, is a tiling window manager for Windows, published under an educational source license which does not permit any kind of commercial use. At the beginning of 2025, I started offering dedicated individual commercial use licenses for people who want to use it at work. These are the main steps that I took in January to disseminate information about the new license: I run a community Discord server centered around komorebi with almost 2000 members - I pinged @everyone with a launch announcement, which was positively received In the release overview video for komorebi v0.1.32 I dedicated a section to introduce the license to …

There are two points of popular open source mythology this post will share my experience with: People won't use your project if you don't use an Open Source Initiative-approved license People won't contribute to to your project if you don't use an Open Source Initiative-approved license Many people have ideas about how society should be like and what must be done to change institutions and to work for a revolution. But this is not enough. Often these ideas do not conform to reality and if they do conform to reality there is only one way to test them: Try to put them to work and see if they succeed. Testing our ideas in concrete work is the only way we will ever know if they are correct. -- James Forman - Twenty Enemies (1971) I maintain a tiling window manager for Windows called komorebi which is made available under the Komorebi License. The Komorebi License is both an educational source license which ensures the availability of source code to individuals for personal use, modifi…

A program is educational source (edu source) software if: The source code is available to individuals for personal use, modification, learning and reference komorebi is edu source software, and the Komorebi License is an edu source license.[1] Any software license which ensures access to source code fulfils the criteria to be considered an edu source license. [1]: In addition to being an edu source license, the Komorebi License is also a firewall license, which serves to protect an individual's freedom to refuse by default.

komorebi for Windows and komorebi for Mac are tiling window managers written in the Rust programming language, published under the Komorebi License. The Komorebi License does not permit any kind of commercial use (i.e. using komorebi at work). A dedicated Individual Commercial Use License is available for those who want to use either komorebi for Windows or komorebi for Mac at work. Separate license purchases are required for komorebi for Windows and komorebi for macOS. The Individual Commercial Use License adds

In 2024 I received $1861.88 in sponsorships via GitHub Sponsors for my work on komorebi, the tiling window manager for Windows, which has continued to grow beyond my wildest dreams; it currently has 10k stars on GitHub, 106k downloads and almost 2000 members in the community Discord. Below is the monthly breakdown of the sponsorship payouts received in 2024: MonthPayout January$92.35 February$115.48 March$143.03 April$150.30 May$188.39 June$158.49 July$122.83 August$144.12 September$179.28 October$116.09 November$229.00 December$222.52 In the post covering 2023, I wrote: It's unlikely that I'll hit the $100 minimum payout threshold on the channel in 2024, but technically, the work I put into the YouTube channel in 2023 has opened the possibility for users to financially support the project in a passive way by subscribing to the channel and watching videos. In February 2024 my YouTube channel became monetized. I have continued posting live development and release overview videos to …

wpm is a process manager for Windows, written in the Rust programming language, published under the Komorebi License. The Komorebi License does not permit any kind of commercial use (i.e. using wpm at work). A dedicated Individual Commercial Use License is available for those who want to use wpm at work. The Individual Commercial Use License adds

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…