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Re: NEWS: mention Coverity bug fixes
"Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com> writes:
> > How about something more like:
> >
> > * Thanks to Coverity for reporting 37 different potential problems in
> > BFD. These were all fixed.
> >
> > Ian
>
>
> It seems a bit grudging. How have other projects approached this?
>
> Mono gave them a paragraph, naming and linking to them and mentioning their
> product (but not the product name):
> http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.1.16/
>
> X.org mentioned Coverity and the name of their tool in a security advisory:
> http://scan.coverity.com/vuln-Xwindows.html
>
> Samba were happy to name them:
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-announce/2006/000094.html
None of those projects are owned by the FSF. We maintain this project
on behalf of the FSF. The FSF does not just purvey software, they
also advocate a specific philosophical position.
I'm not too involved with the binutils these days, so I won't push
this any farther. Nick can decide.
Ian