--- title: "Ghostty Is Now Non-Profit" url: https://daily.dev/posts/ghostty-is-now-non-profit-shvn6rzfz source_url: https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-non-profit type: article source: "Mitchell Hashimoto" published: 2025-12-03T18:38:04.978Z updated: 2026-03-15T03:26:25.531Z tags: ["devtools", "open-source"] reading_time: 6 upvotes: 68 comments: 4 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Ghostty Is Now Non-Profit **[Mitchell Hashimoto](https://daily.dev/sources/mitchellh)** · 6 min read · 68 upvotes · 4 comments ## Summary Ghostty terminal emulator has become fiscally sponsored by Hack Club, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. This structure ensures the project remains free and open source while enabling tax-deductible donations, transparent financial operations, and legal protections against commercialization. The project lead Mitchell Hashimoto will continue technical leadership while establishing sustainable funding through community contributions, with 7% of donations supporting Hack Club's administrative costs. All financial transactions will be publicly visible, and funds will support contributor compensation, upstream dependencies, and operational costs. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@ghost** · 1 upvotes > Mitchell Hashimoto is an excellent programmer. He built HashiCorp with his bare hands. He also contributes to Open Source, physically and monetarily with Ghostty and LibGhostty, now entering an Open Source Foundation like the Programming Languages we use every single day. He also makes monthly donations to the Zig Software Foundation. Jarred Sumner will learn his lesson about why Programming Languages have Open Source Foundations and Ryan Dahl will remember why he put NodeJS in the NodeJS Foundation, also known as the Open JS Foundation. If you want to become an excellent programmer,... **@klendi** · 1 upvotes > Good, unlike bun **@petecapecod** · 0 upvotes > Yeah free Ghostty 👻 I hear ghosts don't like to be chained down. **@khauma** · 0 upvotes > This is awesome!!! ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Ghostty Terminal Adopts a Non-Profit Funding Model](https://daily.dev/posts/ghostty-terminal-adopts-a-non-profit-funding-model-eunmwhbxq) · omg\! ubuntu\! · 124 upvotes · 6 comments - [Superlogical](https://daily.dev/posts/superlogical-slrjyapk1) · Mitchell Hashimoto · 23 upvotes · 2 comments - [Libghostty sneak peek](https://daily.dev/posts/libghostty-sneak-peek-k4zzyubgy) · Bytes by ui.dev · 2 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#devtools](https://daily.dev/tags/devtools), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/ghostty-is-now-non-profit-shvn6rzfz)