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Bitwarden Switches to Commercial License (community.bitwarden.com)
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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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[–] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Secrets is another decent KeePass client and works well with Gnome and other desktops that work well with libadwaita. It doesn't have browser integration though, so it's a non-starter for me.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    How, if at all, does this change impact Vaultwarden?

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  • [–] 2 points 23 hours ago

    VaultWarden is already it's own thing code base wise, so, it likely won't effect the hosted portion of it at all.

    The apps though, sounds like right now, it sounds like it won't make a difference, but, I think moving forwards it'd make sense to consider forking and making VW branded versions.

    With that said, right now, the only reason you can choose your own domain is because BW allows you to self host their own product and VW just made their API respond the same way as BWs, so, as long as BW keeps allowing the self host option, I would imagine that there really isn't much they can do about VW other than starting to play games with their API, which would also impact their paying customers.

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