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Bitwarden Switches to Commercial License (community.bitwarden.com)
submitted 2 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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[-] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 2 days ago

Someone can correct me, but this change seems to be targeting people who are repackaging bitwarden and selling it. It does feel like we are trending the wrong direction though.

[-] ture@lemmy.ml 70 points 2 days ago

If you read their announcement carefully you'll find things like

All current features are available in both versions

Which strongly implies that the different versions will start to diverge over time. Then at one point they will just be like maah it's not worth putting more work into the open source thing, we'll focus on building new cool features yada yada yada. And this is how all the open to partly open to closed source rug pulls worked in the last years.

(If you want to do this the worst way possible like MinIO you also squash / delete the Git history the moment you announce you're only working on closed source)

[-] CedricWhaley@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 days ago

Minio also deleted the repos altogether about two weeks ago.

[-] ture@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah well, didn't know this. I'm still running some old minio instances on my home server. Need to check if the docker images are still around otherwise I urgently need a backup plan...

Fucking hell, why didn't they at least leave the old code available 😭

[-] faercol@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

I moved from minio to garage a few months ago, and it was surprisingly easy to do

[-] CedricWhaley@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

At some point I need to move ente over to garage but keep putting it off.

[-] CedricWhaley@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

I tried to stand up a notesnook insurance to test a couple days ago and it kept failing because minio doesn't exist anymore.

They really fucked a lot of people.

this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2026
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