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Their original plan was to keep it closed source during the beta and make it open source upon release, according to https://proton.me/blog/proton-pass-launch ht

Their original plan was to keep it closed source during the beta and make it open source upon release, according to https://proton.me/blog/proton-pass-launch https://proton.me/blog/proton-pass-launch it is now opensource, however I have not been able to find the repository anywhere. The biggest problem for me now would be the fact it cannot be self hosted, making lock in pretty extreme even though it's open source. The fact I can host my own instance is the main reason I stay with Bitwarden instead of migrating to an offline-first solution.

protonmail 3y ago
Here's the repository: https://github.com/protonpass https://github.com/protonpass.
- doodlesdev 3y ago
  Any specific reason not to put it in the ProtonMail GitHub organization? Anyway, thank you for taking the time to answer. :) Tangentially, I see the application is native (i.e. not using Xamarin like Bitwarden), you should definitely point this out if you ever make some technical post about Proton Pass, I'm sure HN folks will be interested to hear about it. Another thing, the client is not only open source but also free software, I think you should definitely point this out as well. I believe this is an important distinction for quite a lot of Proton users. I wonder however if this is OK to do for the iOS client, AFAIK GPL code could not be published on the app store without breaking the license [0]. Last but not least, I noticed that the issues tab does not appear on the Android repo but does on the iOS one, surely this is not intened? [0]: http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store-gpl-enforcement http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store-...
  - jacooper 3y ago
    However the server source code isnt open. Bitwardens doesnt seem to be fully open either.
    - doodlesdev 3y ago
      Bitwardens is 100% open-source, client and server. There is also an alternative server implementation called Vaultwarden which is lighter weight.
      - jacooper 3y ago
        They have their own license for some files, so not fully open. Maybe should've said not fully open source but open source with source available.
  - protonmail 3y ago
    Thank you for those points, we'll pass them on internally. We have now started to use separate organizations for each product at Proton, e.g. the Proton VPN apps are on https://github.com/ProtonVPN https://github.com/ProtonVPN and the Proton Drive apps are on https://github.com/ProtonDriveApps https://github.com/ProtonDriveApps.

protonmail 3y ago

Here's the repository: https://github.com/protonpass https://github.com/protonpass.

doodlesdev 3y ago
Any specific reason not to put it in the ProtonMail GitHub organization? Anyway, thank you for taking the time to answer. :) Tangentially, I see the application is native (i.e. not using Xamarin like Bitwarden), you should definitely point this out if you ever make some technical post about Proton Pass, I'm sure HN folks will be interested to hear about it. Another thing, the client is not only open source but also free software, I think you should definitely point this out as well. I believe this is an important distinction for quite a lot of Proton users. I wonder however if this is OK to do for the iOS client, AFAIK GPL code could not be published on the app store without breaking the license [0]. Last but not least, I noticed that the issues tab does not appear on the Android repo but does on the iOS one, surely this is not intened? [0]: http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store-gpl-enforcement http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store-...
- jacooper 3y ago
  However the server source code isnt open. Bitwardens doesnt seem to be fully open either.
  - doodlesdev 3y ago
    Bitwardens is 100% open-source, client and server. There is also an alternative server implementation called Vaultwarden which is lighter weight.
    - jacooper 3y ago
      They have their own license for some files, so not fully open. Maybe should've said not fully open source but open source with source available.
- protonmail 3y ago
  Thank you for those points, we'll pass them on internally. We have now started to use separate organizations for each product at Proton, e.g. the Proton VPN apps are on https://github.com/ProtonVPN https://github.com/ProtonVPN and the Proton Drive apps are on https://github.com/ProtonDriveApps https://github.com/ProtonDriveApps.