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 12:45:06 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> 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?

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?"