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To all of you owning or like to buy a MTK based device!

To get proper source there must be prressure to companies manufacturing these devices. Since they are located mostly in china there can not be much done there.
BUT .... also dealer and distributors are bound to laws and have to respect the gpl. Especially in EU.
SO ... if you find a dealer / distributor who sell those devices, please mail them friendly about the source code. of course most of them will not reply or dont understand what you want.
THEN contact your local FSF chapter http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation/ and http://gpl-violations.org/ and report the dealer and the brand/device which no source is available.
They take legal action about it!
At the end the vendor have to choose. selling devices in EU and release source or these devices get banned sooner or later. This will take some months! its a long shot but this is the only one!

SO ITS ON YOU! DO IT!
 
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curl66 said:
To all of you owning or like to buy a MTK based device!

To get proper source there must be prressure to companies manufacturing these devices. Since they are located mostly in china there can not be much done there.
BUT .... also dealer and distributors are bound to laws and have to respect the gpl. Especially in EU.
SO ... if you find a dealer / distributor who sell those devices, please mail them friendly about the source code. of course most of them will not reply or dont understand what you want.
THEN contact your local FSF chapter http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation/ and http://gpl-violations.org/ and report the dealer and the brand/device which no source is available.
They take legal action about it!
At the end the vendor have to choose. selling devices in EU and release source or these devices get banned sooner or later. This will take some months! its a long shot but this is the only one!

SO ITS ON YOU! DO IT!
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I already made alot of work on that !

- I sent an letter to ANACON (The Portuguese ISP Comp, that deals with this matters).

- Also emailed Mediatek and four brands about it, looks like Sony re-read my email and did what i asked!
Told them, the sources where incompleted, and they should compile an kernel from their own sources, now they released an public statement, that they will add the rest of the sources, it's good news but sadly this is ONLY for the MT6589.
 
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superdragonpt said:
I already made alot of work on that !

- I sent an letter to ANACON (The Portuguese ISP Comp, that deals with this matters).

- Also emailed Mediatek and four brands about it, looks like Sony re-read my email and did what i asked!
Told them, the sources where incompleted, and they should compile an kernel from their own sources, now they released an public statement, that they will add the rest of the sources, it's good news but sadly this is ONLY for the MT6589.
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Great!
I already open a Ticket for zopo in Europe countries.

Sent from my GT-N7000 using xda app-developers app
 
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superdragonpt said:
I already made alot of work on that !

- I sent an letter to ANACON (The Portuguese ISP Comp, that deals with this matters).

- Also emailed Mediatek and four brands about it, looks like Sony re-read my email and did what i asked!
Told them, the sources where incompleted, and they should compile an kernel from their own sources, now they released an public statement, that they will add the rest of the sources, it's good news but sadly this is ONLY for the MT6589.
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Good Work dude seriously! :highfive:

Can you please post the link to the public announcement? :rolleyes:
 
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Sony, in the smartphone area, has from what I know a good record in regards to respecting open source licenses. Let's see what comes.

Also, today I noticed the Fairphone which aims to be so politically and socially correct, uses the MTK 6589 SoC but there doesn't appear to be any kind of source code released (however, I found a blog post from July that says they are "working on it").
 
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Crybertrance said:
Good Work dude seriously! :highfive:

Can you please post the link to the public announcement? :rolleyes:
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http://developer.sonymobile.com/dow...-archives/open-source-annou-16-0-full_source/

http://developer.sonymobile.com/dow...es/open-source-archive-for-build-16-0-a-0-36/


from Sony's :

*Partial build. Full build will be available shortly.
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gbl08ma said:
Sony, in the smartphone area, has from what I know a good record in regards to respecting open source licenses. Let's see what comes.

Also, today I noticed the Fairphone which aims to be so politically and socially correct, uses the MTK 6589 SoC but there doesn't appear to be any kind of source code released (however, I found a blog post from July that says they are "working on it").
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I find this funny (and i say funny, not to be rude...)
Lenovo / ZTE / where just two of the comp. that promise to release source code for the MT6577.... 1 year later...... sources still incompleted....

I really wish Sony can break "the wall" of Mediatek's Closed Source in this new SoC.

I will be (partially) happy !
 
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Oppo is also a promosing manufacturer wich could make the mt6589 source true since they are making a mt6589 based device, and also released the source of their Find 5, wich is quite a success and has full XDA support, including a lot of custom roms..
I've mailed them about it already, if they will release the sources, like with the Find 5.
If the Oppo gets support, and custom roms, it will be quite easy to port to any mt6589 device, so building with the required source isn't even needed.
 
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Oppo is also a promosing manufacturer wich could make the mt6589 source true since they are making a mt6589 based device, and also released the source of their Find 5, wich is quite a success and has full XDA support, including a lot of custom roms..
I've mailed them about it already, if they will release the sources, like with the Find 5.
If the Oppo gets support, and custom roms, it will be quite easy to port to any mt6589 device, so building with the required source isn't even needed.
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Find 5 is different though, being Qualcomm based, who is somewhat more open source friendly than Mediatek. It's good though to keep up the pressure, once one company breaks the rest will probably follow.

Cyanogenmod on a MTK device would be a dream. No more being scared of not getting updates! (Until the next version of android makes those sources obsolete)
 
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Find 5 is different though, being Qualcomm based, who is somewhat more open source friendly than Mediatek. It's good though to keep up the pressure, once one company breaks the rest will probably follow.

Cyanogenmod on a MTK device would be a dream. No more being scared of not getting updates! (Until the next version of android makes those sources obsolete)
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It's an nightmare for me... lol
Already compiled CM (9) ICS based since it's the best sources around for the mt6577 ...
So many bugs/errors, and still issing files (eg: mediatek/build/kernel/Makefile)when i fixed 1, two new errors came out.. zzzz.
 
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It's an nightmare for me... lol
Already compiled CM (9) ICS based since it's the best sources around for the mt6577 ...
So many bugs/errors, and still issing files (eg: mediatek/build/kernel/Makefile)when i fixed 1, two new errors came out.. zzzz.
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Indeed.
And you need mediateks API For dual-sim functionality aswell, otherwise you wouldn't get dualsim on any custom rom.

So the hope is on Sony and Oppo.
 
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voetbalremco said:
Indeed.
And you need mediateks API For dual-sim functionality aswell, otherwise you wouldn't get dualsim on any custom rom.

So the hope is on Sony and Oppo.
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That's true, but i highly doubt that some of us are using Dual-SIMs. I have made a couple ROMs without the SIM2 functionality, and i haven't got any complaints about it.
 
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That's true, but i highly doubt that some of us are using Dual-SIMs. I have made a couple ROMs without the SIM2 functionality, and i haven't got any complaints about it.
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Well I know some people who buy a china-phone for that reason; so they don't have to walk with 2 phones, because they have 1 simcard for work, and 1 for private use.
 
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voetbalremco said:
Well I know some people who buy a china-phone for that reason; so they don't have to walk with 2 phones, because they have 1 simcard for work, and 1 for private use.
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Yeah, and some people i know they are buying them because they want cheap quad core phone, anyways as soon as we get everything released i will start making CyanogenMod for MTK6589 devices
 
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