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Right. It's just saying *some* of the code used is open source. And based of the license of those programs, you have to release the code you used. This is actually very common among all manufacturers today. Why pay someone to write new code from scratch, when you can use open source code to get you like 90% of the way there and just code the rest?
Looking at the URL it sends you to, it appears it's just basically running Linux under the hood. So yes, you can get all the source code for all the individual packages/modules that were originally open source to begin with. What you won't get is any proprietary source code (which there is undoubtably some).
Basically you are getting some slightly modified Linux base packages. You wouldn't be able to compile your own firmware with just that.
It is interesting though it's saying Bosch provided the software. So we now have Panasonic making the hardware, and Bosh making the firmware for GM? Or they just made the base OS and GM customized it. Hard to say.
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