Filezilla: Abuse of third-party infrastructure

[codesquid]

Hello,

the Scoop Installer is abusing the infrastructure at https://filezilla-project.org/ or one of its subdomains. Our infrastructure is meant to be used only by humans and FileZilla itself, not third-party installers. The Scoop installer is even using fake user agents to circumvent abuse prevention.

If you want to re-distribute FileZilla using scoop, you absolutely must host the binaries on your own infrastructure.
For redistribution, please take note of https://filezilla-project.org/license.php and https://filezilla-project.org/trademark_policy.php

Regards,
Tim Kosse

[rashil2000]

Hi Tim!

Thanks for letting us know directly. Unfortunately, Scoop does not have any server or storage hosting infra (it is entirely community driven and unfunded). For small packages, we utilize GitHub's repo storage itself, here https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Binary. We will see if we can put up Filezilla there for Scoop's usage.

/cc @issaclin32

Relevant manifest: https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Extras/blob/master/bucket/filezilla.json

[issaclin32]

Thank you for telling us.
Our package now uses https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Binary as the file source.