Re: Coverity scan of gnuplot code

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Tue, 20 May 2008, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> You may or may not recall that Coverity is a commercial outfit 
> that started life as the "Stanford Checker"... [Their] press 
> release says that "Source code analysis from the Scan site is 
> freely available to qualified open source projects at: 
> http://scan.coverity.com"
>
> A quick look at that site doesn't make it obvious what one 
> actually gets as part of the analysis, but I suppose it is worth 
> pursuing...  Anyone interested in contacting them?

In principle this sounds great.  In practice (in my limited 
experience) it's a complete waste of time.  

I have both approached Coverity and have been approached by them 
in connection with the GPL'd econometrics program gretl.  But 
despite several phone calls and emails absoloutely nothing has 
happened.  And their website is totally opaque, IMO.  Of course, 
I'm not offering them thousands of dollars.

Maybe gnuplot will have better luck.  I hope so, but as they say, 
don't hold your breath.

Allin Cottrell