I believe this reoccurring topic have been discussed here before, e.g. at 
http://forums.magnolia-cms.com/forum/thread.html?threadId=e00a8218-99a0-4d5f-b484-41da560d99cd&page=1
 or at 
http://forum.magnolia-cms.com/forum/thread.html?threadId=ecccf889-b7d6-4936-94b7-dbdfec7518fb&page=1

To answer the original question:
- the artefacts are available in the maven repository. Please see 
http://nexus.magnolia-cms.com/index.html#nexus-search;gav~~magnolia-core~4.5.17~~
 or if you want 
http://nexus.magnolia-cms.com/content/repositories/magnolia.public.maintenance.releases/
 where it is physically located (you need to be logged in to nexus to access 
the url and to see search result in the first link). It is also available in 
the enterprise repository which is in fact aggregate of few more physical repos 
(but that is pbly irrelevant to this question): 
http://nexus.magnolia-cms.com/content/groups/enterprise/info/magnolia/magnolia-core/4.5.17/

Now to answer the follow up questions: 
There was never intention to sell more licenses by restricting the access, but 
rather to minimise the maintenance effort. Indeed we make the extra work and 
there are customers who pay for us to invest resources in maintaining old 
versions, in exchange for their money, they get the value in form of delivered 
maintenance releases. This in my opinion doesn't take any value from community 
users. 
Please note also that this policy is in place for couple of years already (same 
was the case for 4.4) and that the switch from public to private maintenance 
releases is made only after careful consideration and in much more lenient way 
then what the official maintenance policy states 
(http://www.magnolia-cms.com/services/support/maintenance-policy.html).

The community have always available the latest version of Magnolia and all 
maintenance releases for this latest version. 
Our intention is to encourage adoption of the new version once it is stable as 
we believe that the newest version of Magnolia brings over the greater value 
over the previous releases and is definitively worth the upgrade effort.

Cheers,
Jan

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Context is everything: 
http://forum.magnolia-cms.com/forum/thread.html?threadId=b0816b60-f2a1-4140-94ba-600420b9276f


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