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Re:The PinePhone could bring the Linux mobile ecosystem to life by ognarb on Sunday June 13, 2021 @02:58PM (#27495246)
Most (all?) the drivers will be closed source since the license allows it.
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Re:The PinePhone could bring the Linux mobile ecosystem to life by posguy on Sunday June 13, 2021 @03:07PM (#27495306)
Worse yet, the OS itself is non-GPL, an OEM can modify Fuchsia outside just the drivers to support their device (eg: create a board support package) and never release their modifications to their customers, meaning the community can't compile their own updates to the software running on the device (worse than our current Android situation).
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Re:The PinePhone could bring the Linux mobile ecosystem to life by Google234 on Sunday June 13, 2021 @03:00PM (#27495261)
At least they won’t break with every minor update.
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Re:The PinePhone could bring the Linux mobile ecosystem to life by fabrice_d on Sunday June 13, 2021 @03:18PM (#27495423)
Unless the OEMs customize the whole stack to only allow the kernel to talk to their drivers. That is only enforceable by legal constraints from Google akin to the CTS [0].

[0] https://source.android.com/compatibility/cts

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