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Re: Is an autogenerated configure shell script non-editable source



Hi,

On 12/11/22 16:47, Andreas Tille wrote:

May be I interpreted
posts in this thread wrongly but I read it like serious is a to high
severity.  Moreover what does this mean for other packages where
configure.ac is missing?

It depends on the licence, to some extent.

The GPL's definition of "source code" is:

The “source code” for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. “Object code” means any non-source form of a work.

So for GPL'd software, shipping a configure script without its configure.ac is a case of missing source code.

   Simon


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