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Comment by syspec

4 days ago

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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mindcrime  4 days ago

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!

apitman  4 days ago

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/

  • benatkin  4 days ago

    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.

  • wkat4242  4 days ago

    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.

siggalucci  4 days ago

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.