More likely "act of compilation" refers to choosing the particular compiler flags for each source code file. These flags come from the makefiles and/or the environment variables passed to Make. And GNU standard practice for "small supporting files" is to put them under an all-permissive license (see "Information for Maintainers of GNU Software: License Notices for Other Files"). So it appears Canonical is asserting copyright on its CFLAGS and its changes to packages' makefiles.
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Re: Binaries are mechanically generated
Date: 2015-12-26 11:01 pm (UTC)