How can BitWarden prevent a company from running it for free if the code is available? The code under those non-cost-free folders Sso and CommCore seems still to be provided with sources. How does that license model work in practice/technically? The (A)GPL parts of the software seem to be sufficient for some users, so the non-cost-free parts rather seem to provide advanced features for enterprises.Īs defined here, it is not allowed to charge royalties for the software under approved open source licenses such as GPL and AGPL, and BitWarden complies with that by publishing some modules ( CommCore, Sso) with a different license. In the following I'll use BitWarden as an example.īitWarden also charges users for self-hosting such a service, although with client and server code being open source, it can (at least partially) be hosted on-premise for free, and people do it.

Of course they can charge users for providing the infrastructure and hosting the cloud service. Their code is publicly available, and the services can be self-hosted. GitLab, BitWarden, EasyRedmine, use open source software licenses.

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