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Open WebUI changed license from BSD-3 to Open WebUI license with CLA


Keeping Open WebUI Free, Fair, and Sustainable

When things break or customers need feature updates, these same groups turn around and demand support from us—the original developers— while never having contributed a line of code, a helpful bug report, documentation, or any resources back to the project. But there is a line: When you start misleading your users about what you’re offering, exploiting the goodwill and energy of independent maintainers, and taking more than you give (especially when making money and actively denying credit), that’s not collaboration—that’s extraction and misrepresentation. When companies are required to credit and retain the original branding, it creates a virtuous cycle: they’re far more likely to participate in the project, propose improvements, submit bug fixes, contribute features, or start a conversation about open collaboration for everyone’s benefit.

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