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Bitwarden Switches to Commercial License (community.bitwarden.com)
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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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[–] TrippyHippyDan@lemmy.world 25 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

That or jump to Vaultwarden https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

[–] WuxinGoat@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Is there another client we can use with vaultwarden though? (In the scenario wgere that gets locked down)

[–] Luckyfriend222@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

There is an iOS app for Vaultwarden. Under that name.

https://apps.apple.com/za/app/vaultwarden-password-manager/id6799711599

Don’t see one for Android. And for the rest I just online.

[–] Azazel@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The web interface is hosted directly by your vaultwarden interface so it’s not lockdown-able. The only things that are would be the browser extension and phone apps. Both of which are formally unnecessary because you can always just use the web interface. I’m sure if they ever locked down there’d be community versions in no time as they’re basically just web wrappers anyway.

[–] phx@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The apps keep a synced local copy, so if the server is down or unreachable you can still get to your passwords. That can also be locked by biometrics etc.

There's a lot of stuff that without be lost by going to just the web interface

[–] Azazel@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

The web app keeps a local synced copy too btw. Biometric is fair tho

[–] grillme@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Can I simply migrate content from Bitwarden to Vaultwarden?

I couldn't tell from looking at the faq or wiki.

[–] TrippyHippyDan@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

It's been a long while, but I believe you just export from Bitwarden and import into Vaultwarden.

[–] awelo@tuiter.rocks 1 points 9 hours ago

@grillme @TrippyHippyDan
I would say yes. I use vaultwarden with bitwarden clients, but I don't know for sure, the best way to know is try it.....xdddd

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

great suggestion

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Vaultwarden still depends on upstream bitwarden

[–] TrippyHippyDan@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Only if you're using the Android app or the web browser plugin, the actual core system does not.

They could lock Bitwarden out tomorrow and Valtwarden would still work fine.

Then people would just have to write specific application and plugin if they wanted to continue to use it with no change.

The web interface would be fine.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The web interface is from bitwarden. Technically they could fork it but that would be much more work.

[–] Yoddel_Hickory@piefed.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

No it is not, the web interface is the page you get when you browse to the swrver directly, it is very different from the Bitwarden one.