Bitwarden Switches to Commercial License

cross-posted from: thelemmy.club/post/57178796

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

Does anyone have a handy guide to switching to selfhosted version? I was considering doing that but I let my plan renew out of laziness.

Idk how it compares feature wise, but i have been running keepassxc/keepassdx combined with syncthing (or any file synchronization/cloud system) for many years without issues. The entire password manager database sits in one encrypted .kdbx file that you keep synced between your devices. Syncthing is nice because its p2p, so no self-/hosting required.

keepassxc.org
github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc

f-droid.org/…/com.kunzisoft.keepass.libre/

syncthing.net
github.com/syncthing/syncthing