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vscodium, vscode without spyware (github.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If by "unclear" you mean "crystal clear" then yeah, they don't do it because Microsoft specifically disallows it in the terms of service. https://cdn.vsassets.io/v/M190_20210811.1/_content/Microsoft-Visual-Studio-Marketplace-Terms-of-Use.pdf

The Marketplace enables you to access or purchase products or services which are designed to work with and extend the capabilities of Microsoft Visual Studio, Visual Studio for Mac, Visual Studio Code, GitHub Codespaces, Azure DevOps, Azure DevOps Server, and successor products and services (the “In-Scope Products and Services”) offered by us and GitHub, Inc. (“GitHub”).

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In-Scope Products and Services. Your right to use any In-Scope Products and Services will be governed by the agreement under which you purchased such products or services, and will be subject to the payment of fees for such products or services, where applicable. Marketplace Offerings are intended for use only with In-Scope Products and Services and you may install and use Marketplace Offerings only with In-Scope Products and Services.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Unclear because both urls were uploaded to to github under open source license by a Microsoft developer, and then promptly removed. I can't find it now (could be removed, could be posted in an issue) but VSCodium have instructions on how to change to MS's marketplace.

Last I read, Microsoft hadn't replied on whether it was legal or not to use their makeplace, since it was uploaded under open source. Thus again, unclear.

Edit: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/31168 The issue where the license of the marketplace is discussed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How does that make you allowed to violate the terms of service for the VS marketplace? A URL pointing to it doesn't mean you suddenly are allowed to use it in a fork. The license just means you can copy that string of text. It doesn't give you permission to do anything with it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just skimmed the link, and from what I understand the legal document prohibiting use of their marketplace did not exist in 2017 (or I am wrong and it took 5 years for someone to dig it up from Terms of Use).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think it's the latter.