Geoff D'Arcy via luv-talk <luv-talk@luv.asn.au> writes:

> BMW Australia Refusing to Comply with Terms of GNU Public License

"Part of the usage rights agreement states that the software is
protected by copyright and BMW is the sole owner. So in this case it is
not subject to the requirements of a "Public" licence."

If this was true, then while it might be weird licensing their own
proprietary code as GPL, and then only distributing binaries, it is
perfectly ok for them to do so.

However I get the impression that BMW is not the "sole owner", and as
such this makes the statement not true.

Just because you have have a "usage rights agreement" doesn't suddenly
mean you own the copyright to everything.