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Password Manager Bitwarden Makes Changes to Address Concerns Over Open Source Licensing


Bitwarden describes itself as an "open source password manager for business." But it also made a change its build requirement which led to an issue on the project's GitHub page titled "Desktop version 2024.10.0 is no longer free software." In the week that followed Bitwarden's official account o...

But it also made a change its build requirement which led to an issue on the project's GitHub page titled " Desktop version 2024.10.0 is no longer free software." Bitwarden remains committed to the open source licensing model in place for years, along with retaining a fully featured free version for individual users." The Register reports the whole episode started because of a new build requirement added in a pull request a couple of weeks ago titled " Introduce SDK client."

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