[0.6.11] - 2025-05-27 Added 🟢 Ollama Model Status Indicator in Model Selector: Instantly see which Ollama models are currently loaded with a clear indicator in the model selector, helping you stay...

For those unfamiliar, Open WebUI is a self-hosted AI interface, which you can use with local models with Ollama, OpenRouter, etc.

Also note there was a recent license change, which is why I didn’t say ‘Open source’. You can make your own judgements about that here:

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

See the link in the post for all the changes, there were too many to list and lots of quality of life improvements from what I can tell.

  • Jeena@piefed.jeena.netEnglish
    242·
    3 days ago

    Urgh I didn’t know about the license change, that’s a bummer. How come every project with ‘Open’ in it’s name goes a similar route and becomes not open?

    Now it’s freeware with available source, but you can’t build anything on top of it.

    • yarr@feddit.nlEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      Easy, because they want the social credibility of being open source, but also later, when the project gets big, they want to dictate exactly who uses it and how.

      If you care about how your software is used to this degree – don’t open source it! Every open source package I have ever made has come with a permissive license, because I want people to be able to use it however they wish. That’s actual freedom. Unfortunately, a subset of “however they wish” can also be “used to bomb Gaza”, but that is the cost of liberty and freedom. You have to take the good with the bad.

      • baod_rate@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        I don’t know if “freedom to modify source code” and “committing a genocide” are morally comparable. This seems to undermine your point. I would have picked a different analogy

        • yarr@feddit.nlEnglish
          3·
          1 day ago

          That doesn’t undermine my point, that proves my point. Making something “FREE” (as in libre) comes with the consequence that people can use it for whatever they want. I assume you don’t agree with bombing Gaza, hence it is a perfect example of “freedom” leading to poor outcomes.

      • danb@feddit.ukEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        One of the main problems is that this is targeted at forks to limit their possibility (Since you can’t really technically call it something else following the license, and they may come after you via trademarks if you retain it).

        OnlyOffice also do this, they prevent changing specific logo use (via sketch interpretation of the AGPLv3) then also prohibit you from using their logo.

    • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      Because they realize they have enough user base to not slum it for free anymore. A lot of projects are fine just getting the notoriety and consultation dollars, but some people are just looking to build things and flip it for money later. It ebbs and flows over time in either direction. I’d say right now most projects are on the “we’re for sale” side of things.