commercial providers can’t fork and sell it and give nothing back to the OSS community.
Comment on Bitwarden Switches to Commercial License
brave_lemmywinks@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
What’s the benefit for them to change the license?
thr0w4w4y2@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
brave_lemmywinks@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
So basically they were getting undercut by people reselling the same a services under a different name.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago And not having to do R&D
Mubelotix@jlai.lu 5 hours ago
No, that would GPL
thr0w4w4y2@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
it literally says in the post that the license change affects companies who are repackaging and reselling bitwarden, but ok.
nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 3 hours ago
But this is the post by bitwarden, defending their decision. AKA marketing.
Can you explain how bitwarden can be “repackaged and resold”, that would be stopped by that change?
Everybody can still fork/rename/publish the FOSS version which is continued to be available. Everybody can connect to vaultwarden…?
talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
What differences will exist between the two parallel versions?
Some future components will be published under the commercial license and will exist only in that build. Newly developed features will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis for which license applies to them.
source: the page linked by OP, community.bitwarden.com/t/…/4
Money