I find this move concerning, and wish that the Founder had looked for a new CEO that shared his values rather than a Private Equity and Mergers Expert.
Furthermore, the change to the GRIT motto is worrying. Trust is useless without Transparency when it comes to code and security.
I think the short answer is that it doesn’t. VaultWarden is currently open source, and no private equity organization can put the genie back in the bottle. If things get really bad then someone would likely fork the open source bits and maintain a pure open source version, in which case there would likely be a procedure to migrate existing VaultWarden installs to the purely open source successor. I don’t think VaultWarden users need to be overly concerned at this point.
I thought the same, just wanted some reassurance :))
The fork would have to be a browser integration as the bitwarden extensions and desktop apps are the closed source bitwarden part. Vaultwarden as the backend self-hosted db and webapp is opensource.
Seems like the clients are at least source-available? https://github.com/bitwarden/clients
It won’t stop them from trying though. Just look at what Bambu is doing.