Original sentence: Currently, only builds are typically audited, but nothing prevents in principle to extend this to more general patterns of production.Depending on the SCM system, they may be completely ignored (1), managed as second class citizens (2), or potentially considered the archtype of configuration items (3).Derived Objects are files (intermediate or not) that are not directly maintained, but get created.Derived objects may then have a real identity.Different instances of the same derived object may be discriminated generically from each other of the basis of their dependency tree.The most typical context is this of compilation, linking, and packaging of source files.The second case assumes a reproducible process to produce them.The third case implies that this process is itself being managed, in practice: audited
Edited sentence: Derived Objects are intermediate files that get created when source files are compiled