Re: [boost] Coverity Static Code Analysis

Subject: Re: [boost] Coverity Static Code Analysis
From: Marshall Clow (marshall_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-02-03 15:10:56

At 3:02 PM -0500 2/3/09, Michael Fawcett wrote:
>Purely out of curiosity, how come Boost isn't at Rung 1 in the
>Coverity Scan Ladder?
>
>http://scan.coverity.com/
>
>Boost and Boost.Build are both listed in Rung 0, so it appears that
>the only step left is selecting a Boost/Coverity liaison.
>
>http://scan.coverity.com/newproj.html

I don't have a problem signing up as a laison and helping people get 
stuff fixed, but I think that someone with a bit of legal training 
needs to look at the license that Coverity wants people to agree to 
before using the scan results. [ It looks pretty harmless to me, but 
IANAL ]

<http://scan.coverity.com/policy.html#license>

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