From 26a645f9e64914799bafa343413d95bd295cf6b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Timothy Jaeryang Baek Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:18:24 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] refac: license wording --- LICENSE | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE index faa0129c65..99f39e7fef 100644 --- a/LICENSE +++ b/LICENSE @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +Open WebUI License + Copyright (c) 2023- Open WebUI Inc. [Created by Timothy Jaeryang Baek] All rights reserved. @@ -15,11 +17,27 @@ modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. -4. Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, and as a material condition of the rights granted herein, licensees are strictly prohibited from altering, removing, obscuring, or replacing any "Open WebUI" branding, including but not limited to the name, logo, or any visual, textual, or symbolic identifiers that distinguish the software and its interfaces, in any deployment or distribution, regardless of the number of users, except as explicitly set forth in Clauses 5 and 6 below. +4. Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, and as a material + condition of the rights granted herein, licensees are strictly prohibited + from altering, removing, obscuring, or replacing any "Open WebUI" + branding, including but not limited to the name, logo, or any visual, + textual, or symbolic identifiers that distinguish the software and its + interfaces, in any deployment or distribution, except in the following + circumstances: (i) deployments or distributions where the total number + of end users (defined as individual natural persons with direct access + to the application) does not exceed fifty (50) within any rolling + thirty (30) day period; (ii) the licensee has obtained specific prior + written permission from the copyright holder; or (iii) where the + licensee has obtained a duly executed enterprise license expressly + permitting such modification. For all other cases, any removal or + alteration of the "Open WebUI" branding shall constitute a material + breach of license. -5. The branding restriction enumerated in Clause 4 shall not apply in the following limited circumstances: (i) deployments or distributions where the total number of end users (defined as individual natural persons with direct access to the application) does not exceed fifty (50) within any rolling thirty (30) day period; (ii) cases in which the licensee is an official contributor to the codebase—with a substantive code change successfully merged into the main branch of the official codebase maintained by the copyright holder—who has obtained specific prior written permission for branding adjustment from the copyright holder; or (iii) where the licensee has obtained a duly executed enterprise license expressly permitting such modification. For all other cases, any removal or alteration of the "Open WebUI" branding shall constitute a material breach of license. +Materials governed by prior licenses retain those original license +terms, as specified in LICENSE_HISTORY. -6. All code, modifications, or derivative works incorporated into this project prior to the incorporation of this branding clause remain licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License, and prior contributors retain all BSD-3 rights therein; if any such contributor requests the removal of their BSD-3-licensed code, the copyright holder will do so, and any replacement code will be licensed under the project's primary license then in effect. By contributing after this clause's adoption, you agree to the project's Contributor License Agreement (CLA) and to these updated terms for all new contributions. +By contributing to this project, you agree to the project's Contributor +License Agreement (CONTRIBUTOR_LICENSE_AGREEMENT). THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE