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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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[–] dmtalon@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Sigh... I hope this isn't the first move of enshitifying bitwarden. I read the comments/replies and hope this is benign but I'm now nervous

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[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 34 points 3 days ago

[–] Jubei_K_08@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Fantastic. I'm tired of having to change password managers. DashLane, Keepass, LastPass, etc., they all end up shooting their own foot somehow.

[–] oddsys@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What happened to keepass?

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[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When Bitwarden got a meh "refresh" of the user interface and started vibe coding stuff (I'm not some super hard-line anti-AI person, but dammit, you absolutely should not vibe code security-critical apps), I switched to KeePassX. It was like coming back home! I used to use KeePass and KeePass 2, switched to Bitwarden for a long while, and while it was neat, KeePassX is just neater. (Doesn't have cloud sync, but syncing the vault files with LocalSend is easy enough.)

[–] 5ymm3trY@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I guess you mean KeepassXC, because the last release of KeepassX apparently was in 2016.

KeepassXC is also using AI, they even made a blog post about it a year ago.

https://keepassxc.org/blog/2025-11-09-about-keepassxcs-code-quality-control/

[–] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 days ago

Honestly their description of use and why that use it is not concerning. I'm more concerned with their choice being copilot lol.

[–] redshift@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yep, ChiPass is a good replacement: https://codeberg.org/ChiPass/ChiPass

[–] ChrisG@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

No mobile client 😢

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 days ago

Yup, I was supposed to say KeepassXC. (...I mean I probably considered using KeepassX at some point, it's XC's predecessor after all. But as I recall Keepass 2 worked well enough on Mono, so I didn't need to switch.)

Also, whoopsies on XC's AI use. At least they don't seem to embrace it as much as Bitwarden, but still makes me go hmm.

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[–] Vitaly@feddit.uk 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

No one's taking away my favourite bash script: https://www.passwordstore.org/

[–] max_t@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am self hosting Vault warden on freeshard.net and using the Firefox Plugin and Android App. How does that affect me?

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

Depends. It all stands on the shoulders of the client. My guess is Vaultwarden will fork and go with their own UI and plugin.

[–] AppleMango@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I think all of us can just move to using Vaultwarden, it seems to fix problems even in the old free version of Bitwarden.

[–] giant_smeeg@feddit.uk 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The issue is, the bitwarden app you still use is what is affected by this change.

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[–] damo_omad@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm thinking I'll finally spin up Vaultwarden and move away from Bitwarden. I'm just hoping they develop their own apps for it

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

So, will you still be able to use the builds with the free license? Does that mean that the App Store builds will be locked down?

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (12 children)

App store EULAs and GPLv3 frequently clash. This change only affects the app store binary releases.

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[–] E_coli42@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I have a proton membership anyways so proton pass seems good since they have SimpleLogin

[–] giant_smeeg@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I just cannot get on board with Proton Pass while I cant have a completely different set of credentials.

I keep my Proton passwords inside the password manager. Either I need to make my Proton password memorable and be my master password OR setup the 2 password mode where I need to remember and login 2 passwords.

They need some kind of privacy pass implementation to link your Proton pass to your Proton account while allowing completely separate credentials.

[–] E_coli42@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I keep the master password inside proton pass itself. I don't want to be trusted with remembering anything. What if I lose my memory, ya know. They give a twelve word backup which you can use in case you get signed out of every device.

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