Packaging Request #2716
add VSCodium
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Description
Hi Parabola,
VSCode is not free, but it turns out that VSCodium is!
I would be very happy if you added it to the Parabola distribution.
Many thanks!
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Updated by freemor almost 4 years ago
I can't seem to find a build of this that doesn't pull in the VScode binary. At
a quick look this just seems to pull in the VScode binary and then modify it
to remove the telemetry. which means it has the same issue as VScode.
Still looking but a bit busy right now. Other should feel free to chime in..
Also there is lot of yarn gulp'ing going on so even if it didn't suffer from
pulling the binary it might not build in the Librechroot (do to network turned
off to prevent non free libs being pulled in).
Updated by bill-auger almost 4 years ago
AFAIK, vscode is free software actually; but it is built on electron - and this one is apparently no different from the FSDG perspective
according to the PKGBUILDs i found, the license for both is 'MIT' - from the descriptions, there seems to be no difference other than perhaps branding
"The Open Source build of Visual Studio Code (vscode) editor"
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/code/
"VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing."
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vscodium-git/
Updated by bill-auger almost 4 years ago
- Related to Freedom Issue #2345: [code] depends on electron added
Updated by bill-auger about 3 years ago
- Status changed from open to wont-fix
i beleive that i have found enough information on the README, to conclude that this program is not fit for parabola
https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/README.md
summary:- "This repo exists so that you don't have to download+build from source"
- the only way to build from source is by taking the "not-FLOSS license"
- "packages downloaded during build"
- "electron"