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Re-License of Vaultwarden to AGPLv3
Source: dani-garcia/vaultwarden#2450 · opened by @BlackDex
Hello contributors to Vaultwarden, I'm starting this discussion because we want to change the open source license of Vaultwarden. Currently it is licensed under GPLv3 which is nice, but this has a gap which could allow commercial usage of Vaultwarden without providing back to the community. For this reason Bitwarden has it's server licensed under the AGPLv3. That same license we want to use for Vaultwarden to keep Vaultwarden fully open source. To be clear, this will not effect any (end)user or any self-hosted environment which you share with your family and friends. This will only have an effect on companies or self-hosted environments that build proprietary tools using Vaultwarden code or modify the Vaultwarden code. This is also more fair towards Bitwarden, since currently the GPLv3 license of Vaultwarden could allow other companies to compete with Bitwarden by modifying the Vaultwarden code and not providing these changes back to the community, which is not som…
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