Forget the legality, it's a simple ethical issue. Bosch are not loosing out when small companies spend considerable resource on developing additional features. They are not harmed in any way. The same cannot be said when the small company has their work posted across the net.
Rick
Ah the old "bigger companies don't care" chat. How do they not? When folk sit and pick apart their IP, it allows larger competitors easy access to snoop and copy (Siemens, Delco et al). The whole point surrounding this is being labelled a thief, when regardless of ethics or morals, the whole product is based on theft itself. If I set up a small company based on changing components of Microsoft Windows, should I have the right to get upset when folk start to rip it off? Yes, I probably would - because it affected me. Would Microsoft be pissed off? Massively.
I still stand by my comment in that if clones did not exist, a huge amount of sales from legitimate tools wouldn't have happened. I know I wouldn't drop 4k on MPPS when I had no idea what I was doing. I've played with it, am comfortable with it and if I ever choose to go into business, I'll be more than happy to buy a fully legit tool. I know this as a FACT - a few tuners I know have went this route.
