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Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source
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this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2024
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Oh, for fuck’s sake. Can we have a decent password manager that isn’t tied to a browser or company? I pay for Bitwarden. I’m not being cheap. But open source is more secure. We can look at the code ourselves if there’s a concern.
Keepassxc? Vaultwarden?
Isn't Vaultwarden used with non-free Bitwarden clients?
This need not be the case, though! There's an open source client on Android called Keyguard. I don't think the desktop app was at all useful anyway. You can just log into your Vaultwarden through any browser. The desktop app is pointless.
Keyguard isn't open source. Have a look at their license. It just says "All rights reserved".
True, but the firefox extension is nice.
The clients are free.
They now require a non-free Bitwarden SDK component. That's what this whole conversation is about.
And the whole conversation is about a bug, not a change in direction...
Only the desktop client. And the response is that not being able to compile sans SDK is an issue they will resolve.
I still think this is bad directionally, but we need to see what happens.
Could you ELI5 please?
"You may not use this SDK to develop applications for use with software other than Bitwarden (including non-compatible implementations of Bitwarden) or to develop another SDK."
This is a condition when using their SDK. This is not considered a free (as in freedom) component because it violates freedom 0: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html#four-freedoms