They hope to generate revenue to support their team. Kingo Android Root is still free for users. Required scripts for rooting would be placed locally in the app.ĭoes it open source Now ?. At that time they hope to become open source from version 2.x where no longer required server processing. Server accessing like downloading drivers and fetching root scripts plays a critical role. Due to that they cannot be completely open-sourced because of the server security issues. They realized the seriousness of this issue, published relevant source codes and promised that they would update it in time. At first Kingo Android Root (versions like v 1.x and year 2014) not developed in a 'open source' approach.