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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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[–] PushButton@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That was written in the sky...

Open-Source is literally used as marketing tool for the under dogs until they reach a critical mass of users.

People were fighting on social media, defending the product, suggesting it, "it's open source", people were doing the marketing for them.

No wonder why people feel like they got raped, after all the hard work they have done for them...

But at least they didn't contribute code, did you? Not me, because I am old enough to never use such products, it's a classic rug pull, bait and switch.

Open source doesn't mean it's good, it must be hold by a bunch of strangers in T-shirt, not in full suite...

Corpo in disguise...