Microsoft just made GitHub Copilot free and open source software under the MIT License. As of today, you can fork it, modify ...

Microsoft has released the source code for the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code under the MIT license.

Programmer and lawyer Matthew Butterick has sued Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI, alleging that GitHub's Copilot violates the terms of open-source licenses and infringes the rights of code authors.

VS Code’s June 2025 update supercharges GitHub Copilot with new chat customization tools, smarter inline completions, and an ...

Microsoft has open sourced the GitHub Copilot Chat extension, marking a major step in turning VS Code into an open-source AI ...

VS Code 1.102, otherwise known as the June 2025 release, builds out GitHub Copilot Chat capabilities and finalizes support ...

Most recently, Microsoft has been sued by programmer and lawyer Matthew Butterick, who has alleged that GitHub’s Copilot violates the terms of open-source licenses and infringes the rights of ...

Open source software may not earn the company direct revenue, ... Elsewhere, Microsoft is open sourcing GitHub Copilot in VS Code, its assistive coding extension for Visual Studio Code.

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says the AI industry needs competition to thrive. Dohmke says navigating Microsoft-OpenAI isn’t as complicated as it seems, and open source is still king.