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

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On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 12:48:04 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>> 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?
>
> sorry, I phrased that badly: obviously it is the mirror owners 
> responsibility to understand the law.
>
> What I'm trying to ask is "are the mirror owners aware that 
> they are redistributing copyrighted material without a license 
> because of your decisions?"

If they care. License is part of the package and package 
description explicitly says "Licenses: custom". There are no 
commercial mirrors as far as I know though but if anyone crazy 
decided to create one, all information to check such stuff is 
there.