• JustinA
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    13 hours ago

    Males sense. Technically, all chipset drivers are required to be open source since Linux is hard-copyleft open source.

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      5 hours ago

      The kernel is open-source AFAIK, but anything built on top of it is part of AOSP which is licensed under Apache 2 and allows for proprietary modifications to be redistributed. To be honest I don’t know how this licensing stuff works exactly.

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      5 hours ago

      There are no nearly custom ROMs for phones with mediatek processors AFAIK because the drivers are not open-source. Either that or there is a legal issue with modifying and redistributimg the modified drivers.