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Mustachius_Grumpius@Mustachius_Grumpius@thelemmy.club

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
dmtalon@dmtalon@lemmy.world

Replying to @⁨Foni@piefed.zip⁩

Well, a big reason I ended up with bitwarden is being able to have a family group that I can help foster, encourage, force my family to use a password manager by having/showing them how these work , why they should use them and continually point them to the app to save and/or retrieve passwords.

The barrier to entry for non technical users is much lower. I don’t want to manage making sure everyone’s db is safe/synced etc… either

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