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).
