


The following flavors of Visual Studio Code are available: There is also a community-driven, MIT-licensed binary release called VSCodium with telemetry disabled by default.

For details on the mixed licensing, see this GitHub comment. Visual Studio Code is a binary distribution of the MIT-licensed Code - OSS repository, with Microsoft specific customizations and released under a proprietary license. Code is a cross-platform text editor developed by Microsoft, built on the Electron framework.
