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Chie
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An extensible desktop app for large language models like ChatGPT and Bing Chat.
It works on macOS, Linux and Windows, and uses native UI on each platform.

* [Introduce the Chie app (with screenshots)](https://chie.app/posts/introduce-the-chie-app/)

## Warning

Please be aware that this project is still in the early stages of development.
As a result, there is a possibility of data loss within the app, and frequent
API changes will occur if you plan to use extensions.

## Contributions

Due to my limited time and energy allocated to this project, large pull
requests are discouraged. In the meanwhile if you have great ideas and don't
want to wait for my slow review, feel free to fork this project and I'll be
happy to link your fork here.

## License

Chie is currently licensed under the GPLv3, it will be relicensed to the MIT
license on March 20th, 2028 (5 years after the first commit). I take this
approach to discourage closed-source software from taking advantage of my work
before it gets enough impacts.

Due to the future relicense, contributors will be asked to sign an agreement.

## Contributor license agreement

By sending a pull request, you hereby grant to owners and users of Chie project
a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable
copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display,
publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute your contributions and such
derivative works.

The owners of the Chie project will also be granted the right to relicense the
contributed source code and its derivative works.
