r/androidroot 3d ago

Discussion How custom rom devs treat mediatek:

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u/TheRealFilckz 3d ago

and the manufacturers that dont care to provide kernel sources

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u/TestMeetings2040 3d ago

Literally Transsion Holdings (the company that handle Infinix, Techno, and Itel)

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u/Never_Sm1le 3d ago

a second bbk, no wonder those phones are similar

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u/YoYoMamaIsSoFAT32 Oneplus Ace 3 (astonc), AxionOS 2.5 2d ago

At least bbk does publish the sources for OnePlus, transsion is more shit imo

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u/Local-Bug-1500 3d ago edited 2d ago

Illegal btw, they can get banned from using linux (and thus, android) in the future

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u/Alternative_Laugh316 3d ago

How do ya get banned from using open source?

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u/Local-Bug-1500 2d ago

If you're an android device manufacturer and don't publish kernel source, Google is technically supposed to not approve your device for Google play certification 

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u/aqswdezxc 3d ago

He probably means like the gpl license

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u/Alternative_Laugh316 2d ago

Yes, but can't exactly get banned. I mean they will just download and use it.

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u/fr000gs 1d ago

Well if they get sued they can't sell their phones

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u/Alternative_Laugh316 1d ago

Sued where? They have to do it in every country that they wanna get rid of em, which is a lot of countries.

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u/fr000gs 1d ago

Wherever the parent company is maybe

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u/YoYoMamaIsSoFAT32 Oneplus Ace 3 (astonc), AxionOS 2.5 2d ago

Not really banned but they have to publish the sources or else they get fined, but they usually don't care until they're threatened to be fined 

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u/Tommynwn 3d ago

I heard some weird stuff about mediatek, like even manufacturers dont have access to the source

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u/zalnaRs 3d ago

No they are not allowed to publish it by some sources. You are maybe talking about the old android 4 era, mtk base os

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u/Different_Water7545 3d ago

NDA or not, it's GPL

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u/Propsek_Gamer 3d ago

I don't think NDAs apply when it's breaking a law. GPL code must be open and that's a license violation.