My ShanZhai » open source http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai News from the world of Chinese gadgets Wed, 11 Sep 2013 06:52:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 Acer releases MT6589 kernel source ahead of Liquid E2 launch http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/2013/04/16/acer-releases-mt6589-kernel-source-ahead-of-liquid-e2-launch/ http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/2013/04/16/acer-releases-mt6589-kernel-source-ahead-of-liquid-e2-launch/#comments Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:09:52 +0000 http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/?p=710 Ever since Mediatek launched their quad-core MT6589 chipset I have been waiting for kernel sources to be released for this platform. As Mediatek themselves don’t seem to pay any attention to the GPL we needed to wait for their customers to open the source code. This time Acer was first to step out with a ...read more

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]]> http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/2013/04/16/acer-releases-mt6589-kernel-source-ahead-of-liquid-e2-launch/feed/ 2 Oppo releases Find 5 source code http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/2013/03/13/oppo-releases-find-5-source-code/ http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/2013/03/13/oppo-releases-find-5-source-code/#comments Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:13:09 +0000 http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/?p=600 Although Android – being released under the GPL licence – demands all manufacturers to make their modified sources public, not everyone does so. Mainly the major brands like Samsung, Sony, HTC and Motorola make sources available. Many smaller vendors and especially the ones from China show little interest in opening their sources. Now Oppo joined ...read more

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]]> http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/2013/03/13/oppo-releases-find-5-source-code/feed/ 0 MT6577 kernel source released http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/2012/11/21/mt6577-kernel-source-released/ http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/2012/11/21/mt6577-kernel-source-released/#comments Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:00:41 +0000 http://www.jetdroid.org/shanzhai/?p=266 One of the very essential things that are needed for creating custom ROMs is a kernel source. Unfortunately Mediatek (and most of their customers) was not very open to providing source code for their smartphone platforms. Needless to say that this effectively keeps the community from porting new operating system releases to their very popular ...read more

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