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>>heshie+(OP)
I can only imagine Mazda's stake in this is that the OSS project is doing something that Mazda would like to monetize. Otherwise why limit a project that's making people fell better about their car purchase?

The worst thing to happen to home automation was companies trying to lock customers into their ecosystem without greater interoperability.

>>madrox+Wa
Mazda (and any big company for that matter) isn't a single entity, but thousands of people, teams and interests. Maybe this is a long term business decision, maybe legal doesn't differentiate between an open source or an commercial product, or maybe one manager is an idiot. The result is often something incomprehensible from the outside.