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On 10/31/2018 04:28 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
No. The site did not require me to have a user ID, let alone be logged in on one in order to download source or binaries of an "open source" project.
I don't like "logging in" on sites -- especially now that most of them perform time-wasting checks to see if I am a human. It is also the case that Google continues to arbitrarily increase the the complexity of such checks, including using state-of-the-art encryption that non-Google and non-auto-update browsers are unlikely to have.
AFAIK, there is no requirement one must be "human" in order to benefit from software being open-source, nor that one submit to daily "auto-updates" of approved software before you are allowed to access the web (or open-source downloads).
Oh, that is new. I have a couple of projects there so I've always been logged in and hadn't noticed any change. None from the outside either, pushing changes or checking out repos. Do they require a login simply to do a shallow clone or to receive a release (package in either .zip or bz2)? I don't think that is changed either because a lot of software packaging depends on pulling tarballs from github and there are no accounts involved there. So if I understand what you are saying then, there is a new login requirement when you just want to view and save, for example, a single source from a project? If that is the case, I do think that is new. I'll have to try from another computer that doesn't automatically log me in and see how it goes. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org