Re: License for not human generated files

On Wed, May 20, 2026 at 08:57:52AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
>So, given a (simpler) human-generated manifest, together with build
>environment information, the autoconf system works as some sort of
>compiler. And we often ship this compiled file for convenience — but (in
>principle, at least) we could just regenerate it from “real” sources.

Autotools is another thing we should take a closer look at. Many 
autotools artifacts contain copyright and license statements. So we have 
automatically generated things that cause human work in maintaining 
machine readable copyright files.

Greetings
Marc