Comment by HDBaseT
4 hours ago
Don't they already have open source firmware, at least for their keyboards. I have a K4 HE and this is on their Github [1].
[1] - https://github.com/Keychron/qmk_firmware/tree/hall_effect_pl...
They publish the .stp, .dxf, .dwg, .pdf files for a lot of their products already too.
I would be fairly optimistic that they will hold their promise.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure Keychron has legitimately published the source for their QMK branches.
The real issue is that people buying a keyboard that advertises QMK support reasonably expect that they can install the upstream generic QMK, but Keychron actually maintains a bunch of "playground" branches on their fork of the QMK repository that each function as their own version of QMK.
I've been using a Q6 Pro as my primary keyboard for a while and I like it overall, but I was very disappointed when I decided to roll up my sleeves and compile QMK myself. My board launched with a build from the "bluetooth_playground" branch, which hasn't been updated for 2 years now and is now 6000 commits behind the main QMK project. There's now a separate "wireless_playground" branch which has been updated more recently and has an entry for my keyboard, but the link on the product page still goes to "bluetooth_playground" and even "wireless_playground" is 3000 commits behind the main QMK project.
Keychron boards without special functionality seem to get added to upstream QMK just fine, but a lot of us owners of bluetooth-enabled Keychron boards would really appreciate it if they provided an official way to flash normal QMK and just forgo the wireless features.