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  • Ryan Brueryanabx@mastodon.social
    Oct 29, 2025, 7:23 PM

    Related to Zed owning all the code in the repo, the EULA for the editor is pretty crazy for an open source project. Read: term-limited license, cannot decompile, disassemble or attempt to learn the source code underlying the editor, Zed making "certain versions" of the Editor available at the zed github. It feels just as bad as VSCode with this kind of crap.

    It really feels like they're trying to be open source only as long as it's convenient for them.

    2. TERMS APPLICABLE TO THE EDITOR 2.1. License Grant Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Zed hereby grants to You, and You hereby accept from Zed, a term-limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-assignable and non-sublicensable license to make use of the Editor for Your internal use only, and subject to the use limitations in Section 2.2. 2.2. License Limitations You agree that You shall not: (a) exceed the scope of the licenses granted in Section 2.1; (b) make copies of the Editor; (c) distribute, sublicense, assign, delegate, rent, lease, sell, time-share or otherwise transfer the benefits of, use under, or rights to, the license granted in Section 2.1; (d) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise attempt to learn the source code, structure or algorithms underlying the Editor, except to the extent required to be permitted under applicable law; (e) modify, translate or create derivative works of the Editor; or (f) remove any copyright, trademark, patent or other proprietary notice that appears on the Editor or copies thereof. 2.3. Open Source Software Zed makes certain versions of the Editor and related software available at the Zed GitHub Repository: https: //github.com/zed-industries/zed (the "Repo"). Your use of such software is subject to the open source software licenses declared in the as bl
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