The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
blogs.windows.com
Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever issue raised on the Microsoft/WSL repo:

Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever issue raised on the Microsoft/WSL repo:

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL

  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    17·
    6 hours ago

    They released their code as MIT which is far more permissive than I was expecting. I was expecting some sort of proprietary license.

    But they need to keep doing stuff like this. Devcontainers for VS Code is still proprietary and keeps me from running codium.