Comment on Bitwarden Switches to Commercial License

• artwork@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It is free and open-source on Desktop at this moment.

  Keyguard is a commercial app and unlocking a premium funds its further development and supports me (Artem Chepurnyi) directly. As of right now, only the Android builds distributed via Google Play store have main features locked behind a paywall, other distribution channels have a build with everything unlocked.

  Source: keyguard.dev/docs/premium/

  But it makes sense to pay for it, since Bitwarden is a constantly changing system and these projects based on it must always be up-to-date with their API changes, too. This is time and worry consuming, and should be compensated.

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  • nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    License is: all rights reserved.

    That’s free like in beer, and open like ‘allowed to inspect’ that’s not what most people mean when they talk of Foss.

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    • pogmommy@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Thank you for pointing this out- I’d managed to completely miss that it seems. That’s unfortunate

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    • artwork@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sorry. Thank you for the clarification that you mean the actual term, and not just the fact of no mandatory payment.

      I get what you mean, yet frankly, I do not believe such projects may be always free that are supposed to always be up-to-date for another system they have no official relation to, and keep it as a responsible hobby other people depend on.

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