Is the runtime license change legal?
spoenemann opened this issue · comments
In 6890051 you changed the runtime license from Microsoft's proprietary license to MIT / Apache-2.0. @muhammadsammy are you sure you are allowed to do this?
The License section in the original README states
The Microsoft C# extension is subject to these license terms.
I've removed the "Debugger" runtimeDependency which have a proprietary license here: 3d32a99.
This extension have "Razor" (Apache-2.0) and "Omnisharp" (MIT) runtime dependencies only and the source code for the original repo is MIT, so as far as I know, it's ok to remove the proprietary license.
For vscode there is a Wiki page explaining the difference between the MIT licensed source and the proprietary distribution. It would be nice to have a similarly clear statement about omnisharp-vscode by its maintainers.
But if you are sufficiently confident about the license change, feel free to close this issue.
@muhammadsammy the license change was effective since version 1.23.2, right? I'd like to delete the previous versions with the proprietary license from open-vsx.org, since they cannot be used from VSCodium and other non-Microsoft clients.
@spoenemann Sure! versions prior to 1.23.2 does have the proprietary license.
Ok, I deleted the older versions.