Bitwarden's FOSS halo slips as new SDK requirement locks down freedoms
ID: d81ec0e6-767c-57af-8fe3-a4ebcf8b779c
STIX ID: report--d81ec0e6-767c-57af-8fe3-a4ebcf8b779c
Feed Name: The Register (Security)
The report outlines community concerns that Bitwarden’s addition of a proprietary-licensed SDK required for building clients/servers means the desktop 2024.10.0 release is no longer fully FOSS. Bitwarden’s CTO disputed the equivalence of the SDK and FOSS components and locked the GitHub issue, while observers compared the shift to other projects’ relicensing and pointed to alternatives such as Vaultwarden, KeePassXC, and SyncThing.
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