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Bitwarden Switches to Commercial License (community.bitwarden.com)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Mustachius_Grumpius@thelemmy.club to c/selfhosted@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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[–] pogmommy@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

I've been very happy with Vaultwarden+Keyguard

https://keyguard.dev/

Edit: I had not looked closely enough at the license and did not realize it's not FOSS, my bad

[–] nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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

[–] artwork@lemmy.world -4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

License is: all rights reserved.

That's free like in beer, and open like 'allowed to inspect' that's not what most people mean when they talk of Foss.

source: https://github.com/AChep/keyguard-app/blob/master/LICENSE

[–] pogmommy@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

Thank you for pointing this out- I'd managed to completely miss that it seems. That's unfortunate

[–] artwork@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Roger that. Thank you for the clarification that you meant the actual term, and not just the fact of no mandatory payment and it having an the source available for public.

I get what you mean, yet frankly, I do not believe such projects may be always free that are supposed to always be up-to-date for another system they have no official relation to, and keep it as a responsible hobby other people depend on.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It currently doesn't work with Vaultwarden. The Linux client doesn't accept custom certificates. And the Android client is paid. It is a dead-end for self-hosting.

The license is also stupidly a single sentence. Which means that use could be nuked at any minute, and any money you use to pay the developer means nothing. If they wanted to kill the project today and nuke the repo, you have no legal rights, the project dies and fuck you and your passwords. That doesn't exactly inspires confidence.

[–] pogmommy@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Thank you for pointing out that the license is not FOSS, I hadn't noticed that. I suppose I'll be exploring my options again.

I'd been using the Android client from f-droid and hadn't needed to pay for it, which was working with my VW server. On my desktop/laptop I use rbw, so I hadn't noticed the cert issues with the kekeyguard desktop client.

[–] artwork@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week 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.