The developers of the Bitwarden password manager have transitioned the Bitwarden Secrets Manager SDK to the GPLv3 license. The SDK provides a set of wrappers for various programming languages, enabling users to create extensions for the password manager and integrate the functionality and data models used in Bitwarden products into their own applications.
The code for both client applications and the server side was previously released under GPLv3 and AGPLv3 licenses, but the SDK content was distributed under a proprietary license. Several weeks ago, the SDK was included as a build dependency for the Bitwarden desktop client, which formally classified the client part of the Bitwarden password manager as non-free software since the SDK's license prohibited its use for creating applications that interact with services other than Bitwarden.
The developers at Bitwarden acknowledged the concerns regarding licensing issues and restructured the Bitwarden SDK codebase. As a result, the core components of the SDK used for building and running client software have been transitioned to the GPLv3 license and moved to the sdk-internal repository, while the old repository containing code for creating business products has been renamed to sdk-secrets.
Source: opennet.ru
