I stumbled upon a GitHub project that seemed to be rising in popularity, with x also giving it a good review. I decided to download the release to try it out. After downloading a file over 100MB, I logged in to GitHub and was prompted for an invitation code. Unfortunately, the README file didn't mention the need for an invitation code, which left me wondering what's the point of an open-source project if you can't even get access without one? Perhaps I've got the wrong understanding of open-source projects.