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

submitted 18 hours ago by Mustachius_Grumpius@thelemmy.club to c/linux@lemmy.world

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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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[–] x1gma@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It doesn't, since you're not repackaging or reselling. It's classical FUD as it is with any other license change in popular software. There already is a subscription. You already need the subscription for features even if you self host. The moment bitwarden pulls anything too greedy or suspicious there will be hard forks, and since vaultwarden already exists as a drop-in replacement for the official server, the API is well-known, those forks would be a massive problem for bitwarden as a company. Realistically, the single question is the same as it's been before the announcement: do you want to pay for comfort and to fund further official development, then go for bitwarden, or to use vaultwarden and self host it, and get more free features on your infra. OSS projects can pull fucky shit too, and die just like any other commercial product. You gotta trust someone.

[–] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Preaching to the choir buddy, I am a FOSS fan and pretty much everything I run is free and open-source. Thanks for the info, I appreciate it.