04-07-2022, 09:51 AM
In the interest of promoting best practices in developing safety- and security-related electronic systems and other software-intensive applications it would arguably be important to make coding guidelines, such as the coming version of MISRA C++ guidelines, highly available for anyone to use.
The open source community has been reluctant to try to implement support for checking compliance with previous MISRA C++ Guidelines in static analysis tools because they are not openly published. I'm proposing that it would be of great value to the automotive industry as a whole if MISRA C++ Guidelines were published under a copyright license which explicitly allows free use of the guidelines e.g. for use as a specification for implementing support for the Guidelines in opens source static analysis tools.
Is there anything currently preventing MISRA from taking such an approach to publishing of guidelines?
The open source community has been reluctant to try to implement support for checking compliance with previous MISRA C++ Guidelines in static analysis tools because they are not openly published. I'm proposing that it would be of great value to the automotive industry as a whole if MISRA C++ Guidelines were published under a copyright license which explicitly allows free use of the guidelines e.g. for use as a specification for implementing support for the Guidelines in opens source static analysis tools.
Is there anything currently preventing MISRA from taking such an approach to publishing of guidelines?