From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22842 invoked by alias); 20 Aug 2007 18:37:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 22751 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Aug 2007 18:37:23 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from a.mail.sonic.net (HELO a.mail.sonic.net) (64.142.16.245) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:37:13 +0000 Received: from webmail.sonic.net (b.webmail.sonic.net [64.142.100.148]) by a.mail.sonic.net (8.13.8.Beta0-Sonic/8.13.7) with ESMTP id l7KIawXa029389; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:36:59 -0700 Received: from 12.7.175.2 (SquirrelMail authenticated user msnyder) by webmail.sonic.net with HTTP; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:36:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <16498.12.7.175.2.1187635019.squirrel@webmail.sonic.net> In-Reply-To: <18118.45892.919518.866568@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: <10983.12.7.175.2.1187377963.squirrel@webmail.sonic.net> <18118.17885.89039.298330@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <000701c7e155$9bcfb8e0$677ba8c0@sonic.net> <18118.45892.919518.866568@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:37:00 -0000 Subject: Re: NEWS for 6.7: mention coverity bug fixes From: msnyder@sonic.net To: "Nick Roberts" Cc: "Michael Snyder" , gdb-patches@sourceware.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.9a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-08/txt/msg00400.txt.bz2 > 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?