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by teruakohatu 335 days ago
Can it be run through a web browser like VS Code and RStudio?

Why did you relicense it under Elastic License 2.0 from VSCode’s MIT?

A better alternative would be proprietary extensions under a different license like Microsoft does.
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juliasilge 335 days ago
Yes, but that is the server mode that is not free to use. If you want a free mode that lets you connect to a server, you might want to check out the remote SSH support: https://positron.posit.co/remote-ssh.html

We talk a bit about why we chose the Elastic license here: https://positron.posit.co/licensing.html

We have thought pretty carefully about what kind of functionality works well in extensions (in fact, we build and maintain a number of extensions!) and came to the decision that the more integrated data science experience we wanted to make required forking.

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notpushkin 335 days ago
Please consider adding a delayed open-source license/clause :-)

Also, are you using Open VSX, and what’s your take on the recent malware extension story?

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juliasilge 335 days ago
Thanks for your thoughts on the license; we know that it's FRAUGHT, for sure. Our company makes quite a lot of software available under OSI-approved licenses (MIT, etc) and we did think pretty carefully about what to try here, given our goals around both OSS and building a sustainable business.

We do use OpenVSX, yes, like the other forks, and our company is a major sponsor of OpenVSX. Security around the extension ecosystem is a pretty messy, complicated issue both for the proprietary Microsoft marketplace and OpenVSX. For example, the recent Amazon Q story! I currently think about it as conceptually fairly similar to the risks of using packages from PyPI or npm.

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teruakohatu 333 days ago
> Thanks for your thoughts on the license; we know that it's FRAUGHT, for sure

There is no doubt that your company maintains a lot of high quality open source code.

But in this case Posit is re-licensing Open Source code, with a "source available" license.

Posit is free to help itself to VSCodium, but not the other way around.

I do hope Posit will one day reconsider this.

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