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> - Microsoft develops the Code - OSS text editor on GitHub, on the > confusingly named "vscode" repository. It's only distributed as source > code. > - Microsoft distributes and promotes Visual Studio Code, which has the > same source code as Code - OSS, plus telemetry, and is proprietary and > distributed without source code. > - The Eclipse Foundation manages an independent extension store for > Code - OSS extensions, which has free extensions only. > - VS Codium is an independent project, not endorsed by Microsoft, > which compiles Code - OSS from source and replaces the default > extension store with the one managed by Eclipse. > - Eclipse Theia is a fork of Code - OSS. It also uses the alternative > store managed by Eclipse. This is clear (though complex). Thanks. I looked at that sentence in https://gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html to see what changes to make, and I think it is correct: <p>Second, when a program's source code carries a weak license, one without copyleft, its executables can carry additional nonfree conditions. <a href="https://code.visualstudio.com/License/";>Microsoft does this with Visual Studio Code</a>, for example.</p> From what you said, that's exactly true. Code - OSS carries a weak license (tell me if I'm wrong), and Visual Studio Code is a nonfree executable which incorporates the code of Code - OSS and puts on other nonfree conditions. Is there an error I don't recognize? Or some other kind of problem? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
