This repo exists so that you don't have to download+build from source. Therefore, you generate a 'clean' build, without the Microsoft customizations, which is by default licensed under the MIT license

When you clone and build from the vscode repo, none of these endpoints are configured in the default product.json. We clone the vscode repository, we lay down a customized product.json that has Microsoft specific functionality (telemetry, gallery, logo, etc.), and then produce a build that we release under our license. When we build Visual Studio Code, we do exactly this. According to this comment from a Visual Studio Code maintainer: Microsoft's releases of Visual Studio Code are licensed under this not-FLOSS license and contain telemetry/tracking. When we speak of 'free software', we're talking about freedom, not price.

This repository contains build files to generate free release binaries of Microsoft's VS Code. Flatpak install flathub īuild instructions can be found here Why Does This Exist

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