Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Licensing issues

[Yavor Doganov]

Karl Berry wrote:
> 
>      Would non-compiling scripts, such as shell scripts, be
>      described as source files.
> 
> Definitely, as Noah said.  In short, the author should put a license
> notice in anything they create, i.e., that is not a derived file.

While this is right, many people do not add notices to makefiles
(especially Makefile.am's), changelogs and headers.  I don't think we
should be picky about these cases, as they are in some sense
debatable, more or less (trivial recipes to generate binaries, obvious
non-creative recording of changes, function declarations/prototypes).