The latter is enforced by a handshake mechanism, and cannot be circumvented. Notably, only the proprietary builds are permitted to use Microsoft's marketplace and use Microsoft proprietary extensions such as the OmniSharp C# Debugger. These different flavors are all built from the Code - OSS repository, but with different licensing and default configurations.

Nullifies telemetry in the source code, also ships configuration with Open VSX.

VSCodium - Community open-source release.

Visual Studio Code - Proprietary Microsoft-branded release.

Code - OSS - Official Arch Linux open-source release.

The following flavors of Visual Studio Code are available: There is also a community-driven, MIT-licensed binary release called VSCodium with telemetry disabled by default.

For details on the mixed licensing, see this GitHub comment. Visual Studio Code is a binary distribution of the MIT-licensed Code - OSS repository, with Microsoft specific customizations and released under a proprietary license. Code is a cross-platform text editor developed by Microsoft, built on the Electron framework.

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