This is very awesome and bojay hit it right on the legal nose there too. The article was right too, it could open some floodgates. EA has been one of the most crooked and double dealing third party developers going back decades both in studio rape and pillaging but also employee shafting and abuses. EA Wife story, this one, shuttered studios and fired people for challenging their sports near monopoly, screwing the MOH team(which in turn brought us call of duty), etc.
If anything I hope this brings more people out of the woodwork. Perhaps an early FIFA or PGA/Tiger Woods title will have some shared math code for ball or swing/kick physics they've not bothered to really revise in 20 years and they get what they got coming to them. This goes to show that EA really is the king of rehash, do little new, and only upgrade the engine eventually when it's required to get away with it longer.