From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Coverity Open Source Defect Scan of Emacs Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 12:54:52 +0200 Message-ID: <85psjvx9c3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1144320935 7441 80.91.229.2 (6 Apr 2006 10:55:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 10:55:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: hallvor@engen.priv.no, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Ben Chelf Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 06 12:55:31 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FRS96-0007Gs-R3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Apr 2006 12:55:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FRS96-0007zx-B7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Apr 2006 06:55:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FRS8v-0007zj-1R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Apr 2006 06:55:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FRS8t-0007zV-LQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Apr 2006 06:55:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FRS8t-0007zS-Fa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Apr 2006 06:55:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FRSCc-0005tZ-1J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Apr 2006 06:59:02 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1FRS8s-0007ez-FD; Thu, 06 Apr 2006 06:55:10 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 510A91C3DB49; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 12:54:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Alan Mackenzie In-Reply-To: (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Thu, 6 Apr 2006 10:53:30 +0000 (GMT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:52472 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie writes: > OK. Again, could you either give a link to a page describing your > product in technical terms, or create such a page if it doesn't > already exist. Even if the product doesn't cost any money, it will > certainly cost a fair bit of time to download, install and evaluate, > so it's only reasonable to expect this description. > > 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. Of course we would not want to become reliant on proprietary technology, but refusing additional input for which it has played a role seems a bit pointless. Like a vegetarian not buying at a grocer that isn't vegetarian himself. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum