impossible download of a release using wget

[nicolabertoldi]

I don't know if it is a real issue
but I noticed that from the release page https://github.com/ModernMT/MMT/releases

if I copy the link for the download of the source code
https://github.com/ModernMT/MMT/archive/v0.10-alpha.tar.gz

I fail to download the tar file using wget from a linux shell
Below the error I get.

no problem instead, if I just click on the link on the website
it download the file in th

$> wget http://github.com/ModernMT/MMT/archive/v0.10-alpha.zip
--2015-08-14 09:18:44-- http://github.com/ModernMT/MMT/archive/v0.10-alpha.zip
Resolving github.com... 192.30.252.129
Connecting to github.com|192.30.252.129|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: https://github.com/ModernMT/MMT/archive/v0.10-alpha.zip [following]
--2015-08-14 09:18:45-- https://github.com/ModernMT/MMT/archive/v0.10-alpha.zip
Connecting to github.com|192.30.252.129|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2015-08-14 09:18:45 ERROR 404: Not Found.

[davidecaroselli]

This is not a bug of MMT, but actually a problem of github. Please consider also that as long as the repository is marked as private it could be possible that simple GET request won't work.