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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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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

It is effectively going closed source

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[–] brave_lemmywinks@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (19 children)

What's the benefit for them to change the license?

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago

Money

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There is no way I'm self hosting something this important... So now I'm not sure what to do actually.

[–] sonstwas@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

That's why I'm just using KeePass. It's just an encrypted file that you can store on whatever storage you want and sync with existing solutions like Syncthing etc.

Yes it's a bit finicky when you edit the file on multiple devices before they've synced but it works very well for me..

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[–] grillme@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago (21 children)

Does anyone have a handy guide to switching to selfhosted version? I was considering doing that but I let my plan renew out of laziness.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (16 children)

Here it explains some self host options with links to “Get Started” for each:

https://bitwarden.com/help/self-host-bitwarden/

For example, here’s the link to “Linux standard deployment”

https://bitwarden.com/help/install-on-premise-linux/

You may also want to consider not making your server available to the open internet, and instead access it only on your LAN via VPN.

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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

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[–] Imaginary_Stand4909@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Side note: I just tried switching to KeePassXC and it seems pretty fine, except for one caveat. If you installed your browser (probs FF or Librewolf) through flatpak or snap on Linux, the browser extension will not work.

I had to change to the non-Flatpak ver of Librewolf on my Fedora PC, which sucked a little lol 😅

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[–] andrewoidxyz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Fine to me as long as this doesnt impact Vaultwarden

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