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Bitwarden Switches to Commercial License (community.bitwarden.com)
submitted 3 days 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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[–] mrdrew@lemmy.today 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

"bitwarden apps will be the commercially licensed builds." I don't understand how this is going to change anything.

I self-host vaultwarden. I use the official Bitwarden app, it works swimmingly. Going the self-hosted route you get enterprise features (I don't use em).

Doesn't the licensing stuff connect with the backend not the app?

https://hub.docker.com/r/vaultwarden/server

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

All current features are available in both versions

They will start making changes exclusively to the propriety app, and eventually the proprietary app will be completely incompatible with the FOSS app. They're doing what Google did with AOSP.

[–] FG_3479@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

The commercial licensing is on the clients. You must switch to the Github versions immediately or proprietary code will be installed.