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Re:Google Antigravity, a New Era in AI-Assisted Software Dev... by jcelerier on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @02:32PM (#45970886)
> AIUI the forks are required because Microsoft is gatekeeping functionality used by Copilot from extensions so they can't be used by these agents. reply

I always wonder how this works legally. VSCode needs to comply with the LGPL (it's based on Chromium/Blink which is LGPL) ; they should provide the entire sources that allow us to rebuild our own "official" VSCode binary

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Re:Google Antigravity, a New Era in AI-Assisted Software Dev... by SR2Z on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @03:18PM (#45971482)
I think that MS provides these extensions as plugins. The core of VSCode is OSS, it's the extra bits that have a different license.
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