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		jcelerier 29 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Antigravity > AIUI the forks are required because Microsoft is gatekeeping functionality used by Copilot from extensions so they can't be used by these agents. reply I always wonder how this works legally. VSCode needs to comply with the LGPL (it's based on Chromium/Blink which is LGPL) ; they should provide the entire sources that allow us to rebuild our own "official" VSCode binary

SR2Z 29 days ago [–]

I think that MS provides these extensions as plugins. The core of VSCode is OSS, it's the extra bits that have a different license.

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