Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I mean, this could be difficult, at least when generated files come >> into play... > > Generated files are, by definition, not the source code of the work; > in the case of the GPL, they are not "the preferred form of the work > for making modifications to it". Some other license texts don't define > "source code", but that's still a pretty good working definition. > > You must ship the source files and make it possible for recipients to > re-generate any non-source files needed; since you're doing that, you > may as well not ship the generated files in the source package but > allow them to be built from 'debian/rules'.
Newly generated or not, it's a good idea to also include the license terms in the generated files, at least a pointer. This saves users from tracing the origin of some help document from the screen display to a file on the disk, to a package that installed the file, and finally to its copyright file. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
