Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Rob Clark wrote: > >> Looking at this page: http://scan.coverity.com/rungAll.html I notice that >> OpenSolaris is not listed. >> >> Could some people at Sun kick this idea around and decide if we want a free >> lint ? >> > > When I asked the Coverity guys at OSCON last week, they said that it probably > wouldn't be free for us, since they're in the business of selling this > service, > and generally won't be offering free service to projects that are mainly > driven > by a single company which they make money off of, and should thus be able to > afford a commercial license. > > (Of course, we benefit from all the free scans they do of the many open source > projects we include - I know we found a major Xorg security hole through > Coverity that they still use as an example in their talks.) > > I'd love to see us find some way to get Coverity scans of OpenSolaris code, > but I think Sun's going to have to put money in for that. > > I don' t know for sure, but Coverity's competitor KlokWork (www.klocwork.com) probably also does Opensource scans, and might be willing to scan a project that Coverity had rejected. Personally I prefer KlocWork, but really any static analysis is better than none.
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