The Pylance name is a small ode to Monty Python's Lancelot who was the first knight to answer the bridgekeeper's questions in the Holy Grail.

Pylance is the default language support for Python in Visual Studio Code and is shipped as part of that extension as an optional dependency. Using Pyright, Pylance has the ability to supercharge your Python IntelliSense experience with rich type information, helping you write better code faster.

Under the hood, Pylance is powered by Pyright, Microsoft's static type checking tool. Pylance is an extension that works alongside Python in Visual Studio Code to provide performant language support. VSCodium exists to make it easier to get the latest version of MIT-licensed VS Code.Pylance Fast, feature-rich language support for Python If you want to build from source yourself, head over to Microsoft’s vscode repo and follow their instructions. These binaries are licensed under the MIT license. This project includes special build scripts that clone Microsoft’s vscode repo, run the build commands, and upload the resulting binaries for you to GitHub releases. The VSCodium project exists so that you don’t have to download+build from source. Therefore, you generate a “clean” build, without the Microsoft customizations, which is by default licensed under the MIT license

When you clone and build from the vscode repo, none of these endpoints are configured in the default product.json. We clone the vscode repository, we lay down a customized product.json that has Microsoft specific functionality (telemetry, gallery, logo, etc.), and then produce a build that we release under our license. When we build Visual Studio Code, we do exactly this. According to this comment from a Visual Studio Code maintainer: Microsoft’s vscode source code is open source (MIT-licensed), but the product available for download (Visual Studio Code) is licensed under this not-FLOSS license and contains telemetry/tracking.

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