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Re:RCE in Visual Studio Code's Remote WSL for Fun and Negati... by jodrellblank on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @11:43AM (#29639110)
VS Code is MIT Licensed - 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.

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Re:RCE in Visual Studio Code's Remote WSL for Fun and Negati... by throw10920 on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @11:48AM (#29639170)
Some 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-cod...

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Re:RCE in Visual Studio Code's Remote WSL for Fun and Negati... by jodrellblank on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @03:09PM (#29641497)
> "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)

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