VSCode "not" flatpackes?

[OtterKring]

Visual Studio Code is not really a no-brainer when coming as a flatpack package (as it does from the Software Manager). If this is in your hands (maintaining the AnduinOS repositories?), it would be great to get it as a regular apt-get install. I will file this for the VSCode team, too.

[Anduin2017]

There is license issue with vscode.

It's under Microsoft Software License Terms.

We can't distribute it. It's Microsoft blocking. And Microsoft is not planning make VSCode free software.

If you want to install VSCode, simply follow Microsoft's instructions. But nobody but Microsoft can distribute it.

The flatpak VSCode is simply an installer which downloads the binary from Microsoft.

This is the same reason why AnduinOS don't distribute Google Chrome. Technically it totally can, but there is legal concern.