Using up-to-date GDC [was Re: Swift is based LLVM,what will the D's LDC do?]

[Dicebot via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 11:24:47 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 06:50:04 UTC, Iain Buclaw via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> Don't quote me, but the only way distributions can ship DMD is 
>> via a
>> script that does a download from dlang.org, extract, install 
>> process
>> (like eg: flashplayer).
>
> Unless I'm misunderstanding how the arch repositories work, 
> Dicebot has the Arch dmd package setup with dmd hosted on the 
> arch servers/mirrors. I presume this is with Walter's 
> permission.
>
> https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/dmd/

Well it is still not 100% legal because every single mirror owner 
needs to get that permission too as far as I understand the 
license. Because mirroring also can be considered redistribution. 
But I am not most lawful person, especially when it comes to 
copyright and license issues :)