[dantiberian]

> With the new versions of SourceTree, you’ll be prompted to review and accept Atlassian’s Customer Agreement and Privacy Policy. To ensure that it is really you that’s accepting these changes, we’re prompting every user to enter their existing Atlassian account credentials or create an Atlassian account.

This smells like BS to me. 99% of all installable apps with EULAs including from big companies like Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe don't require you to login to accept the EULA.

If you want people to log in, then sell them on the great features they get, don't lie to them.

[seraphine]

You have always been forced to register, but previously it was with a 60 day "trial" before it demanded a key and stopped working.

[jschumacher]

Thanks for the feedback. Sure, there are other ways to accept EULAs, but we chose Atlassian Account since it will enable us to integrate other services like Bitbucket and JIRA more seamlessly with SourceTree in the future.

Unfortunately we can't talk about those great features at this stage since they don't exist.

[rajksarkar]

You already needed an Atlassian ID to download the ST licence in order to use it after 30 days.