Open source tool chooses to become more open than ever
Fear not, FOSS fans. Bitwarden isn't going proprietary after all. The company has changed its license terms once again – but this time, it has switched the license of its software development kit from its own homegrown one to version three of the GPL instead.It seems like a packaging bug was misunderstood as something more, and the team plans to resolve it.
We have made some adjustments to how the SDK code is organized and packaged to allow you to build and run the app with only GPL/OSI licenses included. The sdk-internal package references in the clients now come from a newfor more info). The sdk-internal reference only uses GPL licenses at this time. If the reference were to include Bitwarden License code in the future, we will provide a way to produce multiple build variants of the client, similar to what we do with web vault client builds.
This is genuinely good news for the program's more fervently FOSS-focused fans. It's all open source, and it's possible to build the whole thing, including the SDK, from freely available code.FOSS desk suspicious and cynical, and to us, this comment seems to be a somewhat measured response, rather than a whole-hearted commitment. The description on the commit message says:We have not been able to find any clarification on the precise definition of"most" here.
It seems to us that Bitwarden has responded to its users' unhappiness with the changes to the licensing around its password manager and has not merely undone the changes but gone further towards making it all Free Software – even if it continues to maintain that it was all just an error. The change is commendable, and we're glad to see it. It does, however, look as if the company is leaving itself room to build more non-FOSS tools in the future.
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