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Really cool project! I'm very bullish on LLMs for structured data.

Curious - why did you decide to open source? It's neat to see a lot new YC open source companies. I'm curious why you thought open-sourcing superglue was strategically advantageous

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Thanks! The primary reason is because we want folks to be able to run this locally and contribute to the project / fix issues as they come up. This is much harder when you have a black box tool and rely on our small team for support.

Because of the GNU General Public License, any project/startup that makes use of Superglue is required to open source all their code under the same license? I'm not a license/copyright expert, so I'm a bit fuzzy about how this is supposed to work.

Not quite. The server runs standalone, so you can use it just as you would use linux as part of your project without affecting your own code. The client libraries that become part of your code are MIT licensed. The reason we made this decision is to prevent AWS & co from copying all of our code without contributing to the project.

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