Is this evidence of the more developer friendly side of HTC? It seems likely...
HTC has already posted the source kernel for the Google Play Edition of their brand spanking new HTC One M8. The download for this comes in two parts: the main zip file and a framework support package. In total it is 137.1MB in size. It's obviously only useable by our amazing modders, tinkers and dev-sorcerers. Here's the HTC link below to check it out:
Source: HTCDev