Suggested packaging guideline: avoid running autoreconf

[Braden McDaniel]

On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 01:37 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Braden McDaniel <braden <at> endoframe.com> writes:
> > You are welcome to find a more specific term for what you mean. "Source"
> > has a more general meaning than the one you're trying to apply.
> 
> I'm using the definition in the GPL:
> > The “source code” for a work means the preferred form of the work for making
> > modifications to it.
> 
> Obviously autogenerated files are not "source code" under that definition. You 
> are the one using the wrong term.

The term in question is "source", not "source code".  

(And furthermore, the GPL, as is common for a legal document, defines
several key terms that do not have a consistent, generally accepted
meaning.  The definitions have authority only within the scope of the
document.  Seeing such a definition is a pretty good indication that
either the term does not have a broadly accepted definition or the
document is relying some particular subtlety of that meaning.)

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