Bitwarden Switches to Commercial License

cross-posted from: 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

community.bitwarden.com/t/published-version-update-in-app-stores/102750

Pretty much seen it coming when the new CEO came in and removed the words “Transparency” and “Always Free” from the official marketing.

Whether you believe it or not is another matter, but this very post still includes the words “transparency” and “always free”.

Bitwarden remains committed to open source security and transparency

Bitwarden remains committed to a robust, free forever plan for everyone

and a bonus:

The free plan is here to stay permanently

You can already see them positioning themselves to start removing features with the phrase “free plan.”

Nothing stopping them from limiting the number of passwords available in “the free plan” or something, pressuring users into “the pay plan.”

But I’m pretty cynical.

Lastpass limited the number of device types, phone OR desktop

I’d find it more likely they remove passkeys and TOTP from the free plan.

My fam will not like moving password managers again, but it might be time.

Need PC, Mac, Linux, Android, IOS, Passkeys, TOTP, Granular Permissions, keepass ain’t gonna cut it. Getting off my ass and making something isn’t impossible, but i’m not looking forward to figuring out passkeys, copy, paste and accessiblilty on IOS.