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I've been using Open WebUI and have been blown away, it's a better ChatGPT interface than ChatGPT!

https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui

Curious how this compares to that, which has a ton of features and runs great

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Is the Open WebUI license still OSI-compatible? I saw some drama about this on reddit but I'm not sure about the current state.

https://docs.openwebui.com/license/

No it's not

I don't really care about that as a user. Maybe for FOSS purists it's important but copyright is a thing I as techy care nothing about. I can it for free and i can see all the source code. I'm not going to build a fork so the rest doesn't matter.

It's a phony BSD license, with an attempt to pass it off as the real thing with some verbiage. It's neither within the letter nor the spirit of the real BSD license.

Likewise. I use Ollama as the API server and CLI interface for local models, and use OpenWebUI when I want a web interface (which TBH, isn't that often) and it's a fine combination. Honestly, the idea of Ollama adding their own chat interface UI never even occurred to me. It feels a little bit... unnecessary?

Still choices are good, to props to the Ollama team!

That’s what I came to say. I made a tool for my Mac where I can highlight any text then set a hotkey to use that text in a query to an LLM.

Nice because it works on any text. Browser, IDE, email etc.

Isn’t that exactly how Firefox does it?

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