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There's two problems with this that I see. The first is, as you said, that a lot of people won't even realize they need to pay for secure downloads.

I also feel like in the case of something like a package manager, this potentially harms the wider community in ways that charging for features in a specific piece of software doesn't.




Technically paying for an auth token is not sufficient. The token cannot be used directly by Maven or Leiningen, but only by a Nexus proxying repository manager. Not a big deal if you work at a professional Clojure shop, but a huge hassle if you're freelance or just getting started.


It is like having a population partially vaccinated, almost pointless on a large scale.




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