Visual Studio Code is the proprietary version (under the Microsoft Traditional License) of the open-source Code - OSS repository (licensed under MIT). Most of t

Visual Studio Code is the proprietary version (under the Microsoft Traditional License) of the open-source Code - OSS repository (licensed under MIT). Most of the code is open source, except for a small portion that includes elements such as code used for or providing access to services we run in our data centers (e.g., access to the Visual Studio Marketplace). Summarized from the following article: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Differences-between-the-repository-and-Visual-Studio-Code https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Differences-between... If your whole business depends on leeching off of someone else’s servers, you should probably be contributing to those servers in some way.