vscode vs vscodium (a lot of vs).

[Hiroki Tagato]

Hi Jacques,

editors/vscode is based on the source available at the Microsoft's 
GitHub repository: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode

VSCodium is also based on the Microsoft's source but it is with a set of 
patches for removing tracking-related codes and with an alternative 
branding.

If you would like to use VSCode without being tracked by Microsoft, 
please see the following URL:
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/telemetry

On 2021/02/07 18:25, Jacques Foucry wrote:
> Hello Ports,
> 
> I look at editors/vscode and I it surprising me that the base is the Microsoft
> version:
> 
> 
> SHA256 (vscode/microsoft-vscode-1.52.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 4a2b4e3500bff73503322fc3a68099ec4151d3e800cf2bb6e9478f2e94637b6a
> SIZE (vscode/microsoft-vscode-1.52.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 11792551
> 
> On the vscodium website we can read:
> 
> "Microsoft’s vscode source code is open source (MIT-licensed), but the product available for download (Visual Studio Code) is licensed under this not-FLOSS license and contains telemetry/tracking. According to this comment from a Visual Studio Code maintainer:
> 
>      When we [Microsoft] build Visual Studio Code, we do exactly this. 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 you clone and build from the vscode repo, none of these endpoints are configured in the default product.json. Therefore, you generate a “clean” build, without the Microsoft customizations, which is by default licensed under the MIT license"
> 
> So I would like to know whiich code base is used to build editors/vscode.
> 
> I'm really happy with my vim IDE configuration bur everybody talk about vscode
> and I would like to try it without being tracked by Microsoft.
> 
> Thanks for your time and your answer.