Re: NEWS for 6.7: mention coverity bug fixes

[msnyder at sonic dot net]

>
>> 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?

One more:

    HP has donated a curses-based terminal user interface (TUI).
    To get it, build with --enable-tui.  Although this can be
    enabled for any configuration, at present it only works for
    native HP debugging.

HP is certainly a proprietary software company.