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Originally Posted by JV
Not sure about the answer to this, but are the company that makes the OS and the Nav CDs/DVD one and the same? Maybe there's been a cease & desist sent to the admins of this site that we all don't know about?
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That's quite possible.
I believe that the map data is owned by NavTeq and licensed to BMW for use in their nav systems. However, I'm sure that the firmware is done in the exact same way. More than likely, the firmware is written by a separate company and then licensed to BMW (or whomever the manufacturer of the nav units are). Thus, whomever wrote the firmware owns the copyrights to it (unless they sold it outright to BMW).