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Bitwarden Switches to Commercial License (community.bitwarden.com)
submitted 16 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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[–] Foni@piefed.zip 3 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

What would be the reason for using this and not Keepass from the beginning?

[–] dmtalon@lemmy.world 19 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Well, a big reason I ended up with bitwarden is being able to have a family group that I can help foster, encourage, force my family to use a password manager by having/showing them how these work , why they should use them and continually point them to the app to save and/or retrieve passwords.

The barrier to entry for non technical users is much lower. I don't want to manage making sure everyone's db is safe/synced etc... either

[–] Foni@piefed.zip -1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know, my wife (0 technical knowledge) works perfectly, with daughter and personal databases. Of course, it's true that I set everything up myself and I make sure the database is on the family NAS. I'm not judging you or anything, but while it's true that setting it up is a bit more difficult, using it, in my opinion, is not at all.

[–] dmtalon@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

I do run a number of self hosted things, (nextcloud, immich, plex). I had my own pw manager, and had tried keepass myself and when it came time to push the family to using a pw manager I just opted for bitwarden here vs taking ownership of managing that too!

Hell, it's still a literal fight/push to make them understand the importance of it

[–] Kr4u7@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

For me it is totp, cloud capabilities and passkeys

[–] Foni@piefed.zip 4 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I might be a bit paranoid (or an idiot) but I think having the password and the totp in the same database (and app) somewhat negates the point of two-factor authentication.

[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

It does negate the big issue of passwords leaking from the websites and that's the most important part of even having totp.

Nobody is going to spend time to separate the 2 and maintain backups of two different things and all that extra effort when 90% of people don't even use password managers.

Don't let perfection be the enemy of improvement.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

It does, but not every account is worth it

[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 4 points 14 hours ago

I'm using Strongbox on macOS and iOS. Uses a KeePass2 database in the background, does TOTP (so does KeePassXC), syncs via iCloud (but also supports SFTP, WebDAV, OneDrive, Google Drive, and Dropbox) and also keeps my Passkeys. And it supports Apple's AutoFill API, so it works in basically any input field across the systems and feels "native". No browser extensions (at least for Safari) needed.

And if it goes rogue, I can switch to e.g. KeePassium or any other KeePass-compatible app.