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Bitwarden Switches to Commercial License (community.bitwarden.com)
submitted 14 hours ago by Mustachius_Grumpius@thelemmy.club to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://thelemmy.club/post/57178743

RyanL Bitwarden Employee

Hello everyone!

Starting in the next release, the Bitwarden apps published to the various stores will be the commercially licensed builds. No action is needed, and the apps will work exactly as they do today.

Bitwarden remains committed to open source security and transparency
The GPLv3 OSS licensed version continues to be updated and published on GitHub
All current features are available in both versions
License details are on GitHub
Bitwarden remains committed to a robust, free forever plan for everyone

If you have any questions, please ask them in this thread. Thanks all!

EDIT:

Bitwarden is not going closed-source
You can still fork Bitwarden
No change to self-hosting, the licensing change affects those who are repackaging and reselling Bitwarden
The free plan is here to stay permanently
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[–] ture@lemmy.ml 48 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

That's quite the disappointment. Probably need to prepare to switch away from bitwarden or at least research options for open source clients for my vaultwarden backend.

[–] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Someone can correct me, but this change seems to be targeting people who are repackaging bitwarden and selling it. It does feel like we are trending the wrong direction though.

[–] ture@lemmy.ml 38 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

If you read their announcement carefully you'll find things like

All current features are available in both versions

Which strongly implies that the different versions will start to diverge over time. Then at one point they will just be like maah it's not worth putting more work into the open source thing, we'll focus on building new cool features yada yada yada. And this is how all the open to partly open to closed source rug pulls worked in the last years.

(If you want to do this the worst way possible like MinIO you also squash / delete the Git history the moment you announce you're only working on closed source)

[–] CedricWhaley@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 hours ago

Minio also deleted the repos altogether about two weeks ago.

[–] Mustachius_Grumpius@thelemmy.club 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

what is even out there? I pay for proton and bitwarden. but I just dont trust them

[–] ture@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 hours ago

Before Bitwarden / Vaultwarden I went with Keepass (it was some fork don't remember the exact name KeepassXC probably) synced via Nextcloud. It's not as convenient as Bitwarden plus at least back then it didn't support passkeys. So yeah, I don't know what is actually out there. Honestly I don't think it's super urgent to start hunting for alternatives but probably we should have at least some ideas in case the Bitwarden team does some weird moves.