[OOTB-hive] Downloading Alfresco Community Edition

[Richard Esplin]

Alfresco management recently changed the way downloads work. I'm still 
gathering data to make my case to restore the old functionality.

When they made the decision, I pointed out that people can still download 
Community Edition from other places (such as Source Forge) without going 
through our email gate. They made clear that they understood that and did not 
consider it a problem. I have been able to defend the wiki pages for 
historical downloads, but it is still a point of active discussion.

The reduced functionality of the download (no zip) is supposed to be corrected 
shortly.

I believe our trademark license allows you to redistribute unchanged Community 
Edition binaries. Alfresco does not have a problem with you offering the 
downloads in a manner that is more convenient for your purposes, so long as no 
one is confused about the source of the software. If management complains in 
the future, it gives them another nudge to fix the official download page to be 
more convenient.

Thanks for asking for my opinion,

Richard

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On Monday, June 16, 2014 14:26:24 Boriss Mejias wrote:
> Hi Richard and members of the Order of the Bee,
> 
> One thing at the time, and here I'd like to discuss the download of the
> Alfresco Community Edition.
> 
> Richard, I need your opinion on this. On the current state, to download the
> Community Edition, you need to provide your email, and then you get a link
> that brings you to site where you have to click again, until you get the
> real link to download the software. The link only send you to the .bin
> file, not to the .zip file.
> 
> When we will have our web site ready (for the OOTB), it would be nice to
> have a direct link to download Alfresco Community edition without having to
> provide an email, as it was before. And that together with download links
> to different version of the software. This can help a lot the installation
> scripts that needs to do this automatically.
> 
> What would be the impact of this? I'm pretty sure Alfresco Sales won't be
> happy, but the distribution of the software is a fundamental thing. What's
> your opinion on this?
> 
> cheers
> Boriss