From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: acm@muc.de, hallvor@engen.priv.no, ben@coverity.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Coverity Open Source Defect Scan of Emacs
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 11:37:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1FRWYO-00072s-9L@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85psjvx9c3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 12:54:52 +0200)
> Is the product free software? If not, it will meet with some
> antipathy from free software projects such as Emacs.
It's not really a principal problem for fixing bugs: bug reports don't
introduce copyrightable material into the fixed product. And if
someone else is running the tool and reporting its results, there is
not much more to be annoyed at than at not having access to the brains
of human bug reporters.
We won't encourage anyone to use non-free software for any reason,
including the finding of bugs in Emacs. However, we won't reject or
ignore a bug report merely because the bug was found through the use
of non-free software.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-06 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-06 2:44 Coverity Open Source Defect Scan of Emacs Ben Chelf
2006-04-06 10:53 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-04-06 10:54 ` David Kastrup
2006-04-06 15:37 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2006-04-06 11:06 ` Jason Rumney
2006-04-06 15:37 ` Richard Stallman
2006-04-06 16:58 ` Ben Chelf
2006-04-07 2:19 ` Richard Stallman
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