Our edm evo9 fq300

[petbeemer]

This has usual mods
filter/exhaust/manifold/pump etc etc runs 1.6bar on an apexi

[DarkECU]

This file contains ecutek label ...

[danyix]

What definition do you use to open these hex??

[Freon]

Do not post Ecutek roms. I have removed the attachment.

[petbeemer]

Sorry didn't realise the legalities of this,ive just read ecutek's post

[mikado]

It doesn't matter if EcuTek have an user agreement and a license, blahblahblah with their tuning, it is a matter of fact that they are not the ones who have written the ECU's software from scratch and they cannot copyright what they do. That is a sad truth about the whole tuning industry. In my field of experience, Bosch Motronic ECUs, the software isn't even copyrighted by Bosch, which means that no tuner can legally prevent anyone from reading, saving, programming and redistributing their work, whether for money or not and even if it is stealing their intellectual property.

So honestly, even if it is not a good thing to post other people's work on public forums, and I'd hate it if anyone ever did this to me with software that I have done for a given car, there's no legal way of preventing this, and in case this goes to court, EcuTek can't do much about it.

Just my 0.02,

Mikado

[Freon]

Well the point here isn't to find and discuss ways to circumvent Ecutek's license schemes, it is to open the factory ECU to anyone who wants to modify it.

[nvr2fast]

A better way is to make a screen capture of the Ecuflash program while a ROM is open, so you can generally see what the mapping is. Yes... it isn't as convenient as just openinig them within the program and comparing your rom side-by-side, but this is one way to get around the problem.

Remember, we don't want to get the kind people who setup and run OpenECU into trouble. They are helping our hobby free, so don't hurt them by making them receive lawyer letters from various companies, even if those companies are wrong in doing it.