Re: [luv-talk] This looks like a story for Sam

Quoting Russell Coker (russell@coker.com.au):

If that was the case then they would have just given a non-GPL license to BMW.

I think you perhaps are ascribing rather too much planning to intra- and inter-corporate affairs. I've seen this sort of thing happen repeatedly because someone at company A picked a licence out of the blue without thinking of effects on company B (and itself).