This issue seems a bit confusing, so here's my best attempt at grokking it. If you download VS Code from https://code.visualstudio.com/ https://code.visualstud

This issue seems a bit confusing, so here's my best attempt at grokking it. If you download VS Code from https://code.visualstudio.com/ https://code.visualstudio.com/, you'll be presented with this license: https://code.visualstudio.com/License/ https://code.visualstudio.com/License/, which reads more like a somewhat permissive license to proprietary software than it does as an open-source license. If you, instead, clone the git repo at https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode, you'll find that the repo is under an MIT license (https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/LICENSE.txt https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/LICENSE.txt) Hence the title: It feels off (I can see why people would call it "deceptive") that code.visualstudio.com offers something for download that is described as Open Source but is not licensed under a standard Open Source license, and it's definitely bewildering that they would do that while simultaneously making the source code available under the MIT license.