Is VSCode Open Source? What's with the License?

Question

I've recently switched from Emacs to VSCode and I've recently been looking at VSCode Development Environments and their more recent VSCode Server offering / Remote Development Environments (https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/vscode-server)I thought wow, how cool, I could run VSCode Server on one of my remote servers or use SSH with Remote Development (which sets up VSCode Server for you and tunnels it I believe.) and edit remotely.What's super concerning is the license term for VSCode Server (https://code.visualstudio.com/license/server):You cannot...host, share, publish, rent or lease the software; orBut I'm pretty sure Remote Development extension installs and runs VSCode Server for you (which means hosting the software.), essentially setting you up to break the license and open your organization to legal trouble since you're now hosting VSCode Server...Holly molly, there's currently 13,462,303 users using the Remote - SSH extension, all of them breaking the licensing terms of VSCode Server?

mindcrime · Accepted Answer

Not sure about the line of delineation between "VS Code" and "VS Code Server", but "VS Code" itself is MIT licensed. See:
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode
This repository ("Code - OSS") is where we (Microsoft) develop the Visual Studio Code product together with the community. Not only do we work on code and issues here, we also publish our roadmap, monthly iteration plans, and our endgame plans. This source code is available to everyone under the standard MIT license.

gardenfelder · Answer

Here are all the github repos of MS related to VSCode:https://github.com/orgs/microsoft/repositories?q=vscode&type...Yes, it's OpenSource - MIT license.