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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](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/blob/main/LICENSE_HISTORY)**. 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**.
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, we began seeing a pattern that put real pressure on the project’s **long-term sustainability**: some groups were stripping out the branding, repackaging our work as their own, and monetizing it without any acknowledgment or participation. This wasn’t just about credit, it created confusion for end users, **obscured the project’s availability as a free software**, and made it harder for people to understand where the software came from. Worse, these same groups often came back to us for fixes, support, and updates, effectively turning our small team into **unpaid labor** for products they were profiting from, quietly shifting the burden of their commercial offerings. That dynamic ultimately drained time, focus, our limited bandwidth and resources away from the people we’re actually here to serve: **the real community**.
That’s why we’ve acted: **with Open WebUI v0.6.6+ (April 2025), our license remains permissive, but now adds a fair-use branding protection clause**. This update does **not** impact genuine users, contributors, or anyone who simply wants to use the software in good faith. If you’re a real contributor, a small team, or an organization adopting Open WebUI for internal use, **nothing changes for you**. This change **only affects those who intend to exploit the project’s goodwill**: stripping away its identity, falsely representing it, and never giving back.
That’s why we’ve acted: **with Open WebUI v0.6.6+ (April 2025), our license remains permissive, but now adds a fair-use branding protection clause**. This update does **not** impact genuine users, contributors, or anyone who simply wants to use the software in good faith. If you’re a real contributor, a small team, or an organization adopting Open WebUI for internal use, **nothing changes for you**. This change **only affects those who intend to exploit the project’s goodwill**.
In plain terms:
- **Open WebUI is still free and permissively licensed.**