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

[Johannes Pfau via Digitalmars-d]

Am Thu, 05 Jun 2014 14:29:38 +0000
schrieb "Dicebot" <public at dicebot.lv>:

> 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.

archlinux has a 'pragmatic' approach regarding licenses & patents
anyway. They also ship libdvdcss, mesa with "--enable-texture-float",
all multimedia codec packages are in the standard repos etc.