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The Marketplace enables you to access or purchase products or services which
are designed to work with and extend the capabilities of Microsoft Visual Studio, Visual Studio for Mac,
Visual Studio Code, GitHub Codespaces, Azure DevOps, Azure DevOps Server, and successor products
and services (the “In-Scope Products and Services”) offered by us and GitHub, Inc. (“GitHub”).
…
In-Scope Products and Services. Your right to use any In-Scope Products and Services will be
governed by the agreement under which you purchased such products or services, and will be subject to
the payment of fees for such products or services, where applicable. Marketplace Offerings are
intended for use only with In-Scope Products and Services and you may install and use Marketplace
Offerings only with In-Scope Products and Services.
Unclear because both urls were uploaded to to github under open source license by a Microsoft developer, and then promptly removed. I can’t find it now (could be removed, could be posted in an issue) but VSCodium have instructions on how to change to MS’s marketplace.
Last I read, Microsoft hadn’t replied on whether it was legal or not to use their makeplace, since it was uploaded under open source. Thus again, unclear.
How does that make you allowed to violate the terms of service for the VS marketplace? A URL pointing to it doesn’t mean you suddenly are allowed to use it in a fork. The license just means you can copy that string of text. It doesn’t give you permission to do anything with it.
Just skimmed the link, and from what I understand the legal document prohibiting use of their marketplace did not exist in 2017 (or I am wrong and it took 5 years for someone to dig it up from Terms of Use).
If by “unclear” you mean “crystal clear” then yeah, they don’t do it because Microsoft specifically disallows it in the terms of service. https://cdn.vsassets.io/v/M190_20210811.1/_content/Microsoft-Visual-Studio-Marketplace-Terms-of-Use.pdf
Unclear because both urls were uploaded to to github under open source license by a Microsoft developer, and then promptly removed. I can’t find it now (could be removed, could be posted in an issue) but VSCodium have instructions on how to change to MS’s marketplace.
Last I read, Microsoft hadn’t replied on whether it was legal or not to use their makeplace, since it was uploaded under open source. Thus again, unclear.
Edit: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/31168 The issue where the license of the marketplace is discussed.
How does that make you allowed to violate the terms of service for the VS marketplace? A URL pointing to it doesn’t mean you suddenly are allowed to use it in a fork. The license just means you can copy that string of text. It doesn’t give you permission to do anything with it.
Just skimmed the link, and from what I understand the legal document prohibiting use of their marketplace did not exist in 2017 (or I am wrong and it took 5 years for someone to dig it up from Terms of Use).
I think it’s the latter.