![]() ![]() The power of VS Code comes from its many extensions, and these are obtained by the Visual Studio Marketplace under further terms which limit its use to “in-scope products and services”, or specifically, Microsoft Visual Studio, VS Code, GitHub Codespaces and Azure DevOps. VS Code though is described as a “distribution” of Code-OSS and shipped under a separate Microsoft license. The source for Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code is mostly open source under the MIT License, and the company provides Code-OSS which is the base source code for VS Code and unlike the product itself, is entirely under the MIT license. The formation of the group follows an appeal from Eclipse Community Manager John Kellerman earlier this year, in which he stated: “If we do not generate enough interest in this proposed working group, we’ll be forced to decommission the Open VSX registry by the end of May, 2023.” The appeal for help from Open VSX The new working group’s members include Google, Salesforce, Huawei, Posit, Siemens and STMicroelectronics. The Eclipse Foundation has formed the Open VSX Working Group, to support and promote the extension registry for “VS Code compatible editors,” an essential service for developers using forks of Microsoft’s ubiquitous cross-platform editor and IDE. ![]()
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