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.
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.
pogmommy@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Thank you for pointing this out- I’d managed to completely miss that it seems. That’s unfortunate
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.