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?
