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Bitwarden Switches to Commercial License (community.bitwarden.com)
submitted 3 days ago by Mustachius_Grumpius@thelemmy.club to c/linux@programming.dev
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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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[-] someacnt_@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Uh, what should I go with now? I don't want to self-host password manager, as any downtime would be critical. Also, I heard handling sync in Keepass is a pain. Is there a reliable alternative, one that I don't need to constantly worry about?

[-] uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago

I've had a keepass file on my Nextcloud server for years and never had any sync problems whatsoever

[-] GentlePulpy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm using Keepass + Synсthing for years - absolutely no pain and my data belongs only to me

You don't even need a server for this, PC and smartphone is enough

The hell with corporate cloud services, embrace self-hosting, because you can easily!

[-] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

It's still free and Open Source. Why do you want switch? I'm not a user of Bitwarden, just asking out of curiosity.

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