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## Keeping Open WebUI Free, Fair, and Sustainable ## Keeping Open WebUI Free, Fair, and Sustainable
:::tip
**Here's the TL;DR:**
To keep Open WebUI thriving for the long term, we’ve introduced a **lightweight branding protection clause** that helps us sustain the project while ensuring **every user** continues to benefit from rapid innovation **without resorting to gated features or paywalled functionality**. As a small, independent team building mission-critical AI tooling, we rely on fair attribution to support ongoing development, security, and quality, all without restricting real users, contributors, or businesses who use Open WebUI responsibly.
And for those who prefer a fully permissive path, **anyone can still fork from v0.6.5 with zero restrictions and build from there however they choose**. It’s a simple, balanced step that protects the ecosystem, strengthens the project, and **ensures we can sustain our mission of empowering everyone**.
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If you've been following Open WebUI’s journey, you know our mission has always been: empower everyone with cutting-edge AI, no strings attached. Open WebUI is an independent project, built and maintained by a small, dedicated core team. Over the last year, we’ve poured **countless hours, late nights, and real financial resources** into making this tool world-class—**and we trust our users enough to keep it free and open**. If you've been following Open WebUI’s journey, you know our mission has always been: empower everyone with cutting-edge AI, no strings attached. Open WebUI is an independent project, built and maintained by a small, dedicated core team. Over the last year, we’ve poured **countless hours, late nights, and real financial resources** into making this tool world-class—**and we trust our users enough to keep it free and open**.
But with Open WebUI’s rapid growth and success, we started seeing a pattern we couldn’t ignore: **bad actors taking our work, stripping the branding, selling it as their own, and giving nothing back.** That’s not open source—that’s exploitation. When organizations profit off our efforts, misrepresent our work, and box out the real community, it threatens the very spirit of what we’re trying to build. But with Open WebUI’s rapid growth and success, we started seeing a pattern we couldn’t ignore: **bad actors taking our work, stripping the branding, selling it as their own, and giving nothing back.** That’s not open source—that’s exploitation. When organizations profit off our efforts, misrepresent our work, and box out the real community, it threatens the very spirit of what we’re trying to build.