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

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 11:35:23 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> 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 :)

While I respect your point of view on the matter (and agree with 
it to a large extent), it's not your head on the line here.
Do the mirror owners even know that - if they charge for their 
services - it could be argued that they are committing a criminal 
offence under US law by redistributing copyrighted material 
without a license for commercial advantage?