Timeline for Is Microsoft VS Code really open source?
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| Feb 21, 2021 at 12:59 | comment | added | Robert Pollak | GeoGebra is a bad example: Since a re-licensing 2013, only parts of the files needed to build it are open source. Therefore, Debian and Ubuntu only contain packages from earlier GeoGebra versions, see bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=692728 and bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/geogebra/+bug/1211966 . | |
| Aug 16, 2016 at 6:02 | vote | accept | rahil471 | ||
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| Aug 14, 2016 at 15:09 | comment | added | RubberDuck | @rahil471 if you're concerned about the integrity of the executable, then simply go build it yourself from the source. | |
| Aug 12, 2016 at 7:05 | comment | added | rahil471 | Exactly, that's my concern, if we can never be sure that the source code we see is what we get in the binary provided to us. It simply seems the official binaries aren't open-source. Microsoft would have been correct if it says VS Code (Official) is built on top of VS Code Open Source (Which is an open source project in truth) | |
| Aug 11, 2016 at 14:49 | comment | added | EMBLEM | @rahil471 You're absolutely right. Although this theoretically applies to any project, it's especially true of Chrome and VSCode that we can never be sure that the source code we see is what we get in the binary provided to us. The action you describe is inappropriate only in the sense that all proprietary software is inappropriate. It's certainly a true statement (it's free of charge and the source code is under an OSI-approved license). And they do link to their GitHub page elsewhere on the site. | |
| Aug 11, 2016 at 14:42 | comment | added | rahil471 | If I'm understanding you correctly, then would Chrome & Chromium would be some-what similar to what we have over here as VS Code & VS Code Open Sorce. And if that is the case then is it appt for Microsoft to say "Free. Open source. Runs everywhere." and then place a download link to the official release including a link to their own licence and not MIT on their official website. | |
| Aug 11, 2016 at 14:30 | history | answered | EMBLEM | CC BY-SA 3.0 |