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The part I suspect most are here for:

- LibreChat remains 100% open-source under its existing MIT license

- Community-first development continues with the same transparency and openness

of course, no binding commitment to any of that in the long term.

Of course they wouldn’t announce acquisition and a license change at the same time but this is obviously the beginning of the end.

See Hashicorp and Elasticsearch for the same old story.

Luckily these kinds of products are a dime a dozen, ie zero technical complexity and there are so many similar projects already out there. Hell you can even vibe code this kind of project.

Yup, they will of course try to profit long-term, ClickHouse is not a charity project.

Within the next few years, it will introduce an additional enterprise edition, a SaaS offering, or a change in licensing terms.

We aren't a charity.

But, we are also a database provider.

Ryadh mentions some examples below where we have joined forces, incorporated code into ClickHouse Cloud (our commercial offering), and OSS has grown.

Time will tell (I can't predict future)...but I'm excited about the future of OSS LibreChat.

(disclaimer: I work at ClickHouse)

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