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Bitwarden Switches to Commercial License (community.bitwarden.com)
submitted 4 weeks ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 37 points 4 weeks ago (21 children)

If you are on Lemmy, theres very high probability that you also have the technical abilities required to self host Vaultwarden and stop relying on a greedy company for your most critical aspect.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    I have Vaultwarden, it works with the web app and browser extensions. But is there a vaultwarden specific android app? I know technically I can use the Bitwarden app. But sometimes they update the Bitwarden app too fast for all the changes to translate into Vaultwarden and then im kinda forced to use the web app.

    The web app is just a minor inconvenience to me so I continue to use it. Just wondering if there is an easier Vaultwarden specific solution for android.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

    I could but I don't want. Self hosting something this important? I can't login to any website without this software, including my email. It's super critical.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 weeks ago* (8 children)

    The vault gets synced to your devices. So even if your Backend goes down you dont lose access to your passwords in an instant

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    yeah, until the client logs you out randomly. it has an increased chance when the server behaves funky.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    I've been self-hosting vaultwarden for a year and this has literally never happened to me.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    it happens to me once or twice a year, and to people for whom I have installed bitwarden too. official clients, bitwarden.com server.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Maybe that's a bitwarden issue, I guess. One more point for selfhosting. Also, even if that were to happen to you, you most likely have it installed in more than one device. The chances of all sessions logging out at the same time would be extremely low.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    The chances of all sessions logging out at the same time would be extremely low.

    not all devices, but multiple of them did log out roughly the same time. so, don't rely on storing the 2FA authenticator app's password in it.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    Or just use and maintain Vaultwarden properly. All you need to do is set up watchtower along with vaultarden and you'll always be up to date. I've never had this problem so yes, I will continue to store my credentials there :)

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (3 children)

    Then again, if you can do that, why not just use pass

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