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Written by pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org on 2024-10-20 at 13:39

Bitwarden Desktop version 2024.10.0 is no longer free software

https://lemmy.ndlug.org/post/1268531

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Written by fl42v@lemmy.ml on 2024-10-20 at 13:52

Thanks for sharing your concerns here. We have been progressing use of our SDK in more use cases for our clients. However, our goal is to make sure that the SDK is used in a way that maintains GPL compatibility.

Being able to build the app as you are trying to do here is an issue we plan to resolve and is merely a bug.

I.e. “fuck you and your foss”

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Written by zante@lemmy.wtf on 2024-10-20 at 14:26

Pretty much the opposite

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Written by fl42v@lemmy.ml on 2024-10-20 at 14:43

I doubt it. What’ll probably happen is them moving more and more of the logic into the SDK (or adding the back-end of new features there), and leaving the original app to be more or less an agpl-licensed ui, while the actual logic becomes source-available. Soo, somewhat red-hat-esque vibes: no-no, we don’t violate no stupid licenses, we just completely go against their spirit.

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Written by refalo@programming.dev on 2024-10-20 at 14:59

go against their spirit

I think this is more of a failure of the license itself. It’s not a good look to allow something explicitly and then go “no not like that!”

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Written by fl42v@lemmy.ml on 2024-10-20 at 16:34

I’m not sure you can classify this as a failure, as explicitly prohibiting interfacing with non-agpl stuff would greatly limit the amount of stuff you can license under it, perhaps up to the point of making it generally unusable. As for “not like that”… Well, yeah. But you can’t deny it’s misleading, right? Free software kinda implies you can modify it whatever you want, and if it’s a free ui relying on a source-available middleware… Turns out, not so much.

Although, a posdible solution would be require explicitly if you’re basically a front-end for something; but I’m not sure if it can be legally distinguished from the rest of use-cases.

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