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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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[–] nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

why not vaultwarden?

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 15 points 5 hours ago

If I'm going to have to host my own infrastructure, I don't want it tied to Bitwarden, given the new direction of the company.

I fully support Vaultwarden though, and I wish them well.

I'll be going with KeyPassXC and Syncthing.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Vaultwarden (and all the client apps) depend on Bitwarden for the API spec. If Bitwarden introduces closed features in the API that Vaultwarden can't/won't implement, but the client apps do, it will split the spec. They can also introduce API license keys, which would render Vaultwarden mostly irrelevant.

The only way for Vaultwarden to remain relevant going forward is to own it and split ways from Bitwarden. This would in turn mean that the FOSS client apps have to decide which to support. But I think the ecosystem is going to fragment eventually anyway, so the sooner every app decides which way they want to go, the better.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Or you could just fork it when there's a problem

[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 hours ago

Sounds like you're volunteering to do that additional amount of work.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 8 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I'm. Using Vaultgarden but its not clear if the Android app will still be available.

[–] pogmommy@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I've been very happy with Vaultwarden+Keyguard

https://keyguard.dev/

[–] artwork@lemmy.world 1 points 52 minutes ago

Thank you very much for the awesome project mentioned! I had no idea about it!
The marvel works great with Vaultwarden, too, it seems!

Though, Bitwarden system/clients are not so featureful as KeePassXC, for example, it's a great alternative for a more adequate synchronization.

[–] nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

But that's not Foss, so u didn't consider it

[–] artwork@lemmy.world 1 points 50 minutes ago

It is free and open-source on Desktop at this moment.

Keyguard is a commercial app and unlocking a premium funds its further development and supports me (Artem Chepurnyi) directly. As of right now, only the Android builds distributed via Google Play store have main features locked behind a paywall, other distribution channels have a build with everything unlocked.

Source: https://keyguard.dev/docs/premium/

But it makes sense to pay for it, since Bitwarden is a constantly changing system and these projects based on it must always be up-to-date with their API changes, too. This is time and worry consuming, and should be compensated.

[–] nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 hours ago

There will be... Some fork at least