Bitwarden Switches to Commercial License

2 days ago by Mustachius_Grumpius to c/selfhosted

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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grillme 7 points 2 days ago

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.

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Zachariah 5 points 2 days ago

Here it explains some self host options with links to “Get Started” for each:

https://bitwarden.com/help/self-host-bitwarden/

For example, here’s the link to “Linux standard deployment”

https://bitwarden.com/...

You may also want to consider not making your server available to the open internet, and instead access it only on your LAN via VPN.

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TrippyHippyDan 26 points 2 days ago

That or jump to Vaultwarden https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

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WuxinGoat 4 points 2 days ago

Is there another client we can use with vaultwarden though? (In the scenario wgere that gets locked down)

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Azazel 3 points 2 days ago

The web interface is hosted directly by your vaultwarden interface so it’s not lockdown-able. The only things that are would be the browser extension and phone apps. Both of which are formally unnecessary because you can always just use the web interface. I’m sure if they ever locked down there’d be community versions in no time as they’re basically just web wrappers anyway.

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phx 3 points 2 days ago

The apps keep a synced local copy, so if the server is down or unreachable you can still get to your passwords. That can also be locked by biometrics etc.

There's a lot of stuff that without be lost by going to just the web interface

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Azazel 1 point 2 days ago

The web app keeps a local synced copy too btw. Biometric is fair tho

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