If you check the comments, you'll learn that A) GitHub has added support for
releases, which
addresses the primary issue, and B) Ibiblio (which hosts Groklaw) is perfectly
willing to host your large files on their Terasaur system.
I suspect the Internet
Archive might offer some options if approached. Their "media collection" section
has a lot of huge files, including over 1.5 million tracks encoded
losslessly in their Live Music Archive. (And, though it's not on their
front page, and apparently not widely known, they do have a software
sub-section.)
Back to GitHub: frankly, I think their new approach is a
major improvement. Git, at least by default, will download all the
files in a repo. I don't particularly want huge binaries for systems I'll never
run when I download the source. Even if they're in a separate branch, so I don't
normally see them. So getting the release files out of the repo, and into a
separate system is a big win IMO. Even if they could have handled the whole
transition a lot better.
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