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Re:List of Open Source Licences in Mercedes Cars [pdf] by Xylakant on Thursday October 24, 2013 @04:28AM (#6603982)
I'm not surprised they use OS. Some of the libraries come as a surprise to me:

* gcc * libpcap * strace * netcat

I also found it slightly amusing that liboil is used in a car (and is completely unrelated to "oil")

Re:List of Open Source Licences in Mercedes Cars [pdf] by sjwright on Thursday October 24, 2013 @04:39AM (#6604003)
My guess is it's a lot easier to add a bunch of licenses into the documentation than it is to exclude diagnostic tools from production builds.
Re:List of Open Source Licences in Mercedes Cars [pdf] by tobithiel on Thursday October 24, 2013 @05:22AM (#6604184)
These are mostly used for diagnosing/debugging the newer head units. They rely on BT and standard networking. GCC is pretty standard for any embedded device, I would say.