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Bitwardenhas sought to calm user backlash in the wake of source code changes that had raised concerns among users.

Phoronix readers recently flagged concernsabout the company’s apparent shift away from an open source model.

Bitwarden on mobile

Thepassword managerplatform has traditionally operated on a freemium model, providing some code as open source.

For wherever the opinion of one user is worth, Ive switched away from Bitwarden due to this.

While initial concerns were raised, Bitwarden has since clarified the issue.

Spearrin confirmed that Bitwarden has made some adjustments to how the SDK code is organized and packaged.

This will allow users to continue building and running the app with only GPL/OSI licenses included, Spearrin added.

The sdk-internal reference only uses GPL licenses at this time.

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