Re: Splint

[Richard Stallman]

    While Coverity's stuff is commercial,

Do you mean "proprietary"?  They are not the same.  There is nothing
wrong with a program's being commercial.  See
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html.

                                          they've offered its use to some  
    open-source/free software projects.

See http://www.gnu.org//philosophy/mcvoy.html
for the story about another similar offer,
and the harm that was done when someone else accepted it.