From: msnyder@sonic.net
To: "Nick Roberts" <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
Cc: "Michael Snyder" <msnyder@sonic.net>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: NEWS for 6.7: mention coverity bug fixes
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:37:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16498.12.7.175.2.1187635019.squirrel@webmail.sonic.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18118.45892.919518.866568@kahikatea.snap.net.nz>
> I guess if Coverity is proprietary software then the Free Software line
> may be
> that it gets no mention.
That would be biting the hand that feeds us, wouldn't it?
Coverity donated a valuable service to FSF. We benefitted
directly, thru the fixing of numerous potential crasher and
security risk bugs. They charge most people for that service,
but they donated it to us for free. This is not substantially
different from a for-profit employer donating the time of their
employees (such as most of us), and I should think we would
like to encourage it.
There is precident for acknowledging the contributions of
institutions and corporations in the NEWS file:
Configurations for embedded MIPS now include a simulator
contributed by Cygnus Solutions.
Sparc configurations may now include the ERC32 simulator
contributed by the European Space Agency.
What's wrong with acknowledging what Coverity has contributed?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-20 18:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-17 19:12 msnyder
2007-08-17 20:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-17 21:03 ` msnyder
2007-08-18 6:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-18 1:05 ` Nick Roberts
2007-08-18 5:08 ` Michael Snyder
2007-08-18 8:52 ` Nick Roberts
2007-08-18 15:39 ` Michael Snyder
2007-08-20 10:42 ` Nick Roberts
2007-08-20 11:29 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-08-20 18:37 ` msnyder [this message]
2007-08-20 18:42 ` msnyder
2007-08-21 6:47 ` Nick Roberts
2007-08-20 19:11 ` Mark Kettenis
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