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

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

I mean, I can't say I'm surprised but, I can say I'm exhausted with all this.

darn and it was out of site. out of mind. got to move my ass on this.

Keepass + syncthing does the job, but it is more overhead.

If you opt to move vendors instead, miss 1password. They just tossed 300k dollars to racist/fascist DHH.

If it remained open source I`d see no reason to panic yet, that is the single most important part. Though having read through so many posts I'm still not sure if that is the practical case for the FF addon I care about.

I have to look at the alternatives again. I would be fine using Proton for this, but ProtonPass has a couple of issues still. I'm guessing there is no usable free password manager outside of these two, that has a FOSS client doing client side encryption paired with free cloud storage for the passwords. I'm not completely against self hosting, but it would be inconvenient, I'm not going to keep a PC online just for this when I'm not home.

edit:

Bitwarden continues development of open source code under GPLv3. Code under the commercial license is just as viewable and transparent on GitHub. This licensing model provides additional legal protection for select features.

I suppose I can ride this out for a while longer then.

bitwarden was my first but I chose it as better than 1password and its ilk mainly because of the gpl.

Does anyone know what the impact going to be on self hosted vaultwarden servers?

I think the server side of things should be ok, it is the app you use to access the server that is in question. I suppose if you only use the web vault you wouldn't even know.