

VSCodium exists to make it easier to get the latest version of MIT-licensed VS Code. If you want to build from source yourself, head over to Microsoft’s vscode repo and follow their instructions. These binaries are licensed under the MIT license. This project includes special build scripts that clone Microsoft’s vscode repo, run the build commands, and upload the resulting binaries for you to GitHub releases. It’s a good time for developers, administrators, and DevOps managers to review their current version usage. The VSCodium project exists so that you don’t have to download+build from source. Download the current Visual Studio 2022 preview and use it just like you have been using Visual Studio 2019 (you can install them side-by-side) and let us know how it’s going via Developer Community or Report a problem. Therefore, you generate a “clean” build, without the Microsoft customizations, which is by default licensed under the MIT license When you clone and build from the vscode repo, none of these endpoints are configured in the default product.json. 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 we build Visual Studio Code, we do exactly this. According to this comment from a Visual Studio Code maintainer: You can use it to develop commercial applications and sell them. It is free if you are an individual developer. This is applicable to both Visual Studio 2019 & 2022. 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. Community Edition Professional Edition Enterprise Edition Community edition Visual Studio Community edition is free under the following conditions.
