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Originally Posted by stevo585
Is that how it works the tune is IP. Isn't just the software license? Well anyways my tuner doesn't lock his tunes and I have access to it. But I leave that to the professionals not sure I even want to mess with it...your a braver man than me lol.  |
In the grand scheme of things (since licensing and IP are being a bit misconstrued here), you are only licensing ECUtek's software to modify the tune and run the locked tune on your car. Think of ECUtek as Window's for your computer. You pay for a license and you have the rights to use the software.
The tuner's tune is like a program written to handle your car's specific hardware, like an application that you might contract a programmer to write to have your computer blink so lights and play music. This software's owner is a little trickier and depends on how the contract is setup with your tuner. Some tuners will sell you locked access to your tune; this would operate like the software license listed above. The more acceptable to handle this (from a software developer aspect) is that you are contracting the tuner to write your tune for you, and you are paying for the full IP. This isn't how all tuners handle it, and in fact, different courts in different jurisdictions would possibly rule differently should the sale of the tune not explicitly list who owns it (or possibly overturn who the real owner is).