It’s a Chinese company, they don’t care about OSS licenses.
China has a ton of copyright infringing knockoffs of anything remotely popular outside its borders. For a long time, companies like Microsoft took it as granted that the vast majority of their software running in SE Asia was likely pirated.
You can ask your government to take action for this IP violation by taxing those brands more, or banning them until they stop violating licenses. I'm sure they'll start caring more after that.
So, me and many others are very angry about this and this is our first and last time getting a Xiaomi device
i.e. only the telegram update channels have 25k-65k subscribers per a single xiaomi device, let alone the whole XDA community
Her comment[0] at the time directed at other Tech YouTubers was:
> YouTubers- you CAN make a difference by making GPL compliance
> a condition of your product reviews. I'm happy to mediate in
> Chinese if there is any miscommunication. GPL compliance means better,
> more functional, more innovative phones for everyone.
[0] https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/143734308046669414...
And this wasn't the first time she was involved in the resolution of such situations:
* "Creality GPL Update - Naomi Wu Released CR-10S Marlin Source Code" Joel Telling (a.k.a 3D Printing Nerd) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pODH6FR4nU8>
Content Advisory: Joel chooses not to wear a suit & tie to present his videos.