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Bitwarden Switches to Commercial License (community.bitwarden.com)

submitted 16 hours ago by Mustachius_Grumpius@thelemmy.club to c/linux@programming.dev

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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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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 43 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Gotta love corporate announcements. "We're making a change, but nothing will change. We also won't tell you why we're making this change."

[–] refalo@programming.dev 13 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Pretty sure money is the reason. With a side dish of possible backdoor.