PROMs and Copyrights...

[Dave Williams]

-> As far as copyright is concerned, my guess (IANAL etc.) is that it is
-> technically illegal to sell a chip containing modified GM code - it
-> would be a derivative work.  Just changing a few bytes or tables
-> isn't sufficient...
->
-> However, GM would be hard pressed to prove any actual damages.  After
-> all, you need their hardware to run the code!

 They don't have to prove damages for copyright violation.  All they
have to do is prove you copied some nontrivial portion of their code.

 Under the new copyright laws, they don't even have to have a copyright
notice in the code in order to press a case.