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Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source (www.phoronix.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Isn't Vaultwarden used with non-free Bitwarden clients?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This need not be the case, though! There's an open source client on Android called Keyguard. I don't think the desktop app was at all useful anyway. You can just log into your Vaultwarden through any browser. The desktop app is pointless.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Keyguard isn't open source. Have a look at their license. It just says "All rights reserved".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

True, but the firefox extension is nice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The clients are free.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (3 children)

They now require a non-free Bitwarden SDK component. That's what this whole conversation is about.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Could you ELI5 please?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

"You may not use this SDK to develop applications for use with software other than Bitwarden (including non-compatible implementations of Bitwarden) or to develop another SDK."

This is a condition when using their SDK. This is not considered a free (as in freedom) component because it violates freedom 0: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html#four-freedoms

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

And the whole conversation is about a bug, not a change in direction...

Update: Bitwarden posted to X this evening to reaffirm that it's a "packaging bug" and that "Bitwarden remains committed to the open source licensing model."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Only the desktop client. And the response is that not being able to compile sans SDK is an issue they will resolve.

I still think this is bad directionally, but we need to see what happens.