I think the source code download is automatically added by GitHub when you create a release in a project, and I don’t know that there’s any way to remove it. So I don’t think the “source code” download is necessarily intentionally misleading, but apart from that, yeah, you’re absolutely right. It is a bit of a shitty way to use GitHub.
So I don’t think the “source code” download is necessarily intentionally misleading
The source code archives weren’t explicitly placed by that person but everyone who ever used Github knows exactly that this happens. Even a quick glance at the URL suggests it’s an open source implementation of the engine.
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I think the source code download is automatically added by GitHub when you create a release in a project, and I don’t know that there’s any way to remove it. So I don’t think the “source code” download is necessarily intentionally misleading, but apart from that, yeah, you’re absolutely right. It is a bit of a shitty way to use GitHub.
The source code archives weren’t explicitly placed by that person but everyone who ever used Github knows exactly that this happens. Even a quick glance at the URL suggests it’s an open source implementation of the engine.