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There's a petition asking LG to open source their work: https://www.change.org/p/lg-electronics-lg-to-open-source-their-phones-as-they-are-shutting-down-production-for-good/
It's important because sooner or later LG phones will loose support from LG (as LG is completely shutting down mobile branch of their corp), so for everyone good it will be better if LG open source their phones in both - hardware and software matters. That will mean:
This is probably impossible because a lot of the code is probably licensed from other companies so they couldn't open source it without negotiating a new license from those companies, and they likely aren't jntered in open source.
When has a change.org ever worked?
Like they said, it probably has other licenses that doesn't allow them to open source.