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VS Code is MIT Licensed - https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode Arguably the MIT license gives you more Freedom than the GPL'
by jodrellblank 5y ago
VS Code is MIT Licensed - https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
Arguably the MIT license gives you more Freedom than the GPL'd Linux kernel or GNU utilities. Trying to draw a distinction between "evil user-unfriendly Microsoft stuff" and "Holy Saviour FOSS" is not meaningful anymore.
- throw10920 5y agoSome parts of VSCode are MIT Licensed - not all of it, and in particular, parts of the standard VSCode that almost everybody downloads are straight-up proprietary, per the article[1]. [1] https://parsiya.net/blog/2021-12-20-rce-in-visual-studio-codes-remote-wsl-for-fun-and-negative-profit/#your-editor-has-drm https://parsiya.net/blog/2021-12-20-rce-in-visual-studio-cod...
- jodrellblank 5y ago> "Some parts of VSCode are MIT Licensed - not all of it" The source code, the editor are. This is like Oracle releasing a proprietary plugin for EMACS and distributing it on Oracle Linux, and someone saying "this is bad, we need FOSS editors!". That wouldn't make EMACS not-FOSS. (Is it trolling of me to point out that of course the thing people actually want is not the FOSS bit? There are dozens of editors, people want features not ideology)