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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:
When has a change.org ever worked?
Like they said, it probably has other licenses that doesn't allow them to open source.