I see no reason why in the meantime the community can't use this tool using the free trial
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:13 AM, Soft <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Jason Giglio <[email protected]> wrote: >> Sheet Spotter wrote: >>> I stumbled into a code analysis tool from Coverity that claims to >>> identify source code flaws through an elaborate static code analysis >>> with a lower "false positive" rate than similar tools. Coverity seems to >>> offer their tool (or their services?) free of charge to open source >>> projects. >> >> I went through this a couple years ago. >> >> The conclusion of the thread was that Linden Lab already licensed >> Coverity internally, and they weren't going to release the results of >> the report to us. There were some vague excuses about security or >> something, and that the open source community can't really help fix >> those kinds of bugs anyway. > > The problem is that the Coverity report is generated against the full > build, including server components and things where we don't have a > license to redistribute code. If we renew our Coverity license (that's > up in the air - I'd heard that it's hugely expensive), the plan is to > get a separate analysis running against the very same code that's > exported, and to export that routinely. > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges > -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
