Unfortunately, the majority of these projects are just forks of well-established ones without any contributions.

To be fair, the organization only consists of 1 guy (Aleksei Potov) at the moment.

They really should license their onboard computers. Companies like John Deere would happily scrap Intel Windriver.

I don't know if Tesla has any computers to license. My understanding is that nVidia makes the computers inside Tesla vehicles (the X1 product for infotainment, and the DRIVE product for self-driving).

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2015/09/30/tesla-motors-model-...

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/self-driving-cars/partners/tesl...

If you want to play with it, you can buy an X1/X2 devkit today, straight from nVidia : https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-sy...

I think John Deere is perfectly fine using something that is proven to work. I can't imagine anyone wanting to tie themselves to Tesla's software at this stage of the game.

Contract provision that survives bankruptcy, Tesla needs the cash or there may not be a Tesla in two years.

Happy to see Tesla /finally/ make some traction on GPL compliance.

Some additional context [1]:

  I’m reaching out you since you are someone who has expressed interest
  or requested open source code from Tesla in the past.

  We would like to let you know that we now have two repositories on
  GitHub that might be of interest.
  
  You can find them here:

  https://github.com/teslamotors/buildroot
  https://github.com/teslamotors/linux

  Today they contain the buildroot material that is used to build the
  system image on our Autopilot platform, and the kernel sources
  for those boards as well as the Nvidia Tegra-based infotainment
  system in Model S/X. It is expected to be amended with material for
  other systems in the car in the near future.

  Currently the material that is there is representative of the 2018.12
  release, but it will be updated with new versions corresponding to new
  releases over time.
  
  It does not contain the proprietary applications Tesla has built on top of
  this system image such as the actual Autopilot software stack,
  Nvidia proprietary binaries, etc.
  
  Work is underway on preparing sources in other areas as well, together with a
  more coordinated information page. We wanted to let you know about this
  material as it is available now while work continues on the other parts.

  For further questions, please contact [email protected].

[1] https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/tesla-releases-some-...

Looks like they have some more work to do:

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/may/18/tesla-incomplete-...

It looks like everything is a fork except for two repos:

buildroot - a Github commit of the buildroot.org project

linux - a manual clone of the linux git repo

There are probably some Tesla made commits somewhere in here, but they really should just opened pulls against the original projects.

It looks like the purpose is to link to for being GPL compliant, not like an attempt to contribute to open source.

Lots of Ruby and Go, my languages of choice. Makes me love Tesla even more.

They're hiring Go programmers...

While they don't include their higher-complexity systems or seem to improve the existing projects much, I still find it interesting to see what tools they use.

shiiiisss https://github.com/teslamotors/linux/commit/6f13a69f3d72ac08...

How can we be sure this is really Tesla sponsoring this? It looks like the sole person is a Tesla employee but maybe they're working unilaterally? It is probably them but just wanted to add some healthy skepticism...

Finally, after being non compliant with GPL for years.

Pile load of propaganda, again.