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The telemetry code (spyware) that is clearly in the binaries but missing from the MIT-licensed source code (people have already determined that the binaries don

• bpicolo 8y ago
  The telemetry usage is directly in the MIT source: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/f05063d13da8c6112ed439e3a36836960ad005cd/extensions/typescript-language-features/src/utils/telemetry.ts https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/f05063d13da8c6112ed... The telemetry extension is open source too: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-extension-telemetry https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-extension-telemetry And you can unpack the source for the distributed electron bundle yourself: https://medium.com/how-to-electron/how-to-get-source-code-of-any-electron-application-cbb5c7726c37 https://medium.com/how-to-electron/how-to-get-source-code-of...
  • sam0x17 8y ago
    Then there is literally no reason for the license discrepancy
    • jklein11 8y ago
      There is certainly A reason for the license discrepancy. It just may or may not be a good one.