Pylance and some other VS Code extensions are licensed only for use with Microsoft products.
Does Cursor have a special license that grants permission to use Pylance and other Microsoft-only licensed extensions in non-Microsoft software? Unlike most other VS Code forks, Cursor includes Pylance in its repository and appears to bypass Pylance’s Microsoft-only restrictions.
If Cursor does not have a special license, wouldn’t it be potentially liable for intentional inducement of copyright infringement, since including Pylance in the Cursor extension repository and bypassing its protections could encourage users to unknowingly violate the Pylance license? This possibility seems more likely given how frequently Pylance breaks in Cursor. If it were officially supported by Microsoft, I would expect it to be more stable.
Is there anything official on whether Cursor has a special license (or not)? If not, this would seem to present a significant liability risk.