This brings up an interesting point; which BMW might try to make if this ever goes to court.
There have been times when device manufacturers (and car manufacturers) attempt to prevent device owners from modifying the code on their own devices. I think once folks tried to drag the DMCA into it. There's a lot of muddling up of the ownership waters there.
This may mean that the ownership of the binaries can be similarly challenged. Somehow. A point can be made that a binary living inside a phone (or car) I have bought has not been "given" to me (and thus the source code need not be given to me either).
Granted, it's rather convoluted logic, but then again, this isn't the first time stuff like this has happened.
Would be interesting to see how such an argument actually pans out.
This brings up an interesting point; which BMW might try to make if this ever goes to court.
There have been times when device manufacturers (and car manufacturers) attempt to prevent device owners from modifying the code on their own devices. I think once folks tried to drag the DMCA into it. There's a lot of muddling up of the ownership waters there.
This may mean that the ownership of the binaries can be similarly challenged. Somehow. A point can be made that a binary living inside a phone (or car) I have bought has not been "given" to me (and thus the source code need not be given to me either).
Granted, it's rather convoluted logic, but then again, this isn't the first time stuff like this has happened.
Would be interesting to see how such an argument actually pans out.