The public press release from Digital Guangdong.
https://www.digitalgd.com.cn/news/12846/
Google translate:
On the evening of August 24, our company learned that some netizens posted a post to discuss our CEC-IDE system, and the company management attached great importance to it. Our company thanks the netizens for their support and attention to the CEC-IDE system, sincerely accepts criticisms from netizens, and seriously conducts verification.
The CEC-IDE system consists of development tools, back-end systems and component libraries. The development tools use the open source VSCode, which has been slightly modified and added some functions. The back-end system has developed management of users, permissions, projects, requirements, etc., as well as tasks. For functions such as collaboration and knowledge sharing, public capability components are developed in the component library. It was put into trial operation in July this year, and it is still in the exploratory stage and has not been used for commercial purposes.
After preliminary verification, due to negligence in the iterative version update, MIT protocol documents were missing in recent versions, and terms such as "independent research and development" in product descriptions were questioned by netizens. For this, we feel deeply guilty and self-blame. The company has ordered Relevant working teams have made serious rectifications. In the future, we will further improve the product R&D management mechanism.
The use of open source software has greatly improved the efficiency of our company's product research and development. Open source projects have provided great help to our company. The open source spirit is a concentric circle shared by programmers. Digital Guangdong Company would like to express its heartfelt thanks and lofty respect to all open source contributors. Respect.
It is open source and has contribution from everywhere. According to the press release, the MIT License document is missing in some recent version.
From
en.wikipedia.org
Unlike
copyleft software licenses, the MIT License also permits reuse within
proprietary software, provided that all copies of the software or its substantial portions include a copy of the terms of the MIT License and also a copyright notice.
[9][10] As of 2020, the MIT License was the most popular software license found in one analysis,
[11] continuing from reports in 2015 that the MIT License was the most popular software license on
GitHub.
[12]