MG Software now available for download

[jamakr4]

MG has now publicly released their software for the MG4

Open-Source

www.mgmotor.de

I think this happened because of their software lawsuit.

 

[dave99]

be interesting to see whats in there, you have to contact them for the source. I suspect it will be just the changes they have made to any open source software, I'd be surprised if there is anything meaty in there.

 

[ajs]

It looks like they're providing source only for the already published open source components, and none of the source for components they've developed themselves.

 

[leonkernan]

Has anyone received a copy of what they’re providing?
I’m not in the UK or EU so I’m not sure they’d let me have it.
The UK site has a list of components and there are a couple I’m very keen to see.

https://www.mg.co.uk/opensource

 

[jamakr4]

Has anyone received a copy of what they’re providing?
I’m not in the UK or EU so I’m not sure they’d let me have it.
The UK site has a list of components and there are a couple I’m very keen to see.

https://www.mg.co.uk/opensource

Not yet

 

[Roger001]

Has anyone received a copy of what they’re providing?
I’m not in the UK or EU so I’m not sure they’d let me have it.
The UK site has a list of components and there are a couple I’m very keen to see.

https://www.mg.co.uk/opensource

I've requested access to the code, but have not yet heard anything back.

It is clear that it is going to get more complicated for MG as the public info will be raising additional questions.

- Questions will be raised about the age of some of the software, but 'security' issues are limited by the fact that MG has never made the MG4 that open. Without software interfaces (such as the one Octopus Energy would like to have) issues with older code can not easily be exploited by a third party.

- They are using a few products that are licensed under the GPL terms. These are interesting as all derivative works have to be then released, so if you used GPL code in a product, where the GPL code gets incorporated into the wider code, all the code then becomes GPL licensed.