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Basically, what the title says. Do you use any app, that is proprietary, but either has no OSS alternatives or they're all not good enough? If there is an alternative, what keeps you from switching?

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 months ago (15 children)

Bitwarden. Most people think that their application is open source, but more and more of their code has shifted from the GPL/AGPL licensed code to code in their SDK, which is under a proprietary license. This led to their new Android app being disqualified from being hosted in F-Droid repos.

Keyguard was supposed to be an open source Bitwarden client, but the dev chose to use a custom proprietary license, so that is source available as well.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Vaultwarden ?

Edit: Nvm, that's just the server part

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's actually a good point too: Vaultwarden is fully open source. The official Bitwarden server also has proprietary components.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Yea but I didn't realize the vaultwarden project didn't also release client software.
I had looked into running my own vaultwarden, but without open source clients it's maybe a bit moot. Although I guess the web interface can be considered a client, OS or browser integration is a convenient feature.

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