FS#67780 - [code] Potential legal issues with Microsoft's extension marketplace

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Timur Demin (tdemin) - Sunday, 30 August 2020, 23:15 GMT
Last edited by Filipe Laíns (FFY00) - Thursday, 24 September 2020, 19:40 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Filipe Laíns (FFY00)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
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Percent Complete 100%
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Details

The current Code-OSS packaging patches the package so that Code uses Microsoft's extensions marketplace, as seen in product_json.diff ([1]). The problem with that approach is that marketplace.visualstudio.com, as specified by its EULA, p. 1.b ([4]), can only be used by the Microsoft Visual Studio's family of products, and it's unclear whether custom builds, like Code-OSS is, are allowed to use it ([2][3]). This means users running Code are potentially breaking Microsoft's ToS.

There's an open package registry, Open VSX [5], that can be used as a possible replacement. The fixes to product.json needed to use Open VSX with Code-OSS have already been outlined by the VSCodium project, see [6].

[1]: https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/blob/packages/code/trunk/product_json.diff
[2]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/31168
[3]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/31168#issuecomment-498803448
[4]: https://aka.ms/vsmarketplace-ToU
[5]: https://open-vsx.org/
[6]: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/DOCS.md#extensions-marketplace
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Closed by  Filipe Laíns (FFY00)
Thursday, 24 September 2020, 19:40 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Sorry for the delay!

Switched to OpenVSX in code 1.49.1-1.

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