<![CDATA[Bitwarden Switches to Commercial License]]>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
]]>https://postcall.pub/topic/6b8ddd6c-cb43-489e-8628-743caa66ba3f/bitwarden-switches-to-commercial-licenseRSS for NodeTue, 13 Oct 2026 05:56:35 GMTSat, 10 Oct 2026 13:33:28 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Bitwarden Switches to Commercial License on Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:39:48 GMT]]>@irotsoma There's no such thing as "Actually FOSS" - that's why it stands for Free & Open Source Software.

All of the pain being experienced by this move from Bitwarden is because it is Open Source Software, which is the not-Free, shitty corporate owned version of Free Software.

What you want is software that is "actually Free."

@Mustachius_Grumpius

]]>https://postcall.pub/post/https://growers.social/users/jpaskaruk/statuses/117418307658459118https://postcall.pub/post/https://growers.social/users/jpaskaruk/statuses/117418307658459118Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:39:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bitwarden Switches to Commercial License on Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:15:12 GMT]]>Sure, it's no change for self hosters currently, but it's one more step in moving towards a more closed platform overall. I do hope more FOSS client apps end up getting made sometime soon. I've been using Keyguard on Android for some time, which means the recent several breaking changes in the Bitwarden apps to the Vaultwarden backend haven't hit me as hard, but I do still use the official apps for my laptop and desktop and Keyguard isnt fully FOSS, of course. I'd love to see some forks or brand new apps one of these days that are actually fully FOSS for both mobile and browsers. I've thought about doing some myself, but I have too many other projects and I also don't have a MAC or want to pay the fees to make an iPhone version. And I abandoned my Android Developer account when they started the identity nonsense, so none of my apps are on the official store anymore and Fdroid and similar may not be viable soon, so it would only really be for myself and a few others who use alternate Android OS's.

]]>https://postcall.pub/post/https://piefed.blahaj.zone/comment/6400132https://postcall.pub/post/https://piefed.blahaj.zone/comment/6400132Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:15:12 GMT