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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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[–] greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Having only ever used keepass, what was the advantage of bitwarden? That you didn't need to sync it yourself?

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

That you didn't need to sync it yourself?

and that you have to never deal with sync conflicts. It's a huge deal for those who are using tech but not understanding it, and a convenience for the rest

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

That's the main benefit yeah.

I use the send tool as well for sensitive files

[–] CedricWhaley@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

It's also way easier to have shared passwords for family accounts.