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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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[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 17 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

When Bitwarden got a meh "refresh" of the user interface and started vibe coding stuff (I'm not some super hard-line anti-AI person, but dammit, you absolutely should not vibe code security-critical apps), I switched to KeePassX. It was like coming back home! I used to use KeePass and KeePass 2, switched to Bitwarden for a long while, and while it was neat, KeePassX is just neater. (Doesn't have cloud sync, but syncing the vault files with LocalSend is easy enough.)

[–] 5ymm3trY@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

I guess you mean KeepassXC, because the last release of KeepassX apparently was in 2016.

KeepassXC is also using AI, they even made a blog post about it a year ago.

https://keepassxc.org/blog/2025-11-09-about-keepassxcs-code-quality-control/

[–] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 hour ago

Honestly their description of use and why that use it is not concerning. I'm more concerned with their choice being copilot lol.

[–] redshift@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 hours ago

Yep, ChiPass is a good replacement: https://codeberg.org/ChiPass/ChiPass

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 3 points 7 hours ago

Yup, I was supposed to say KeepassXC. (...I mean I probably considered using KeepassX at some point, it's XC's predecessor after all. But as I recall Keepass 2 worked well enough on Mono, so I didn't need to switch.)

Also, whoopsies on XC's AI use. At least they don't seem to embrace it as much as Bitwarden, but still makes me go hmm.