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> ... CyanogenMod is free; it is mostly a build of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) release with a bunch of added goodies. Google's proprietary user-space apps and utilities are available, but they must be downloaded and installed separately.

Interesting. Isn't this against any Google terms?

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The Google Apps are no longer distributed directly with CM and other ROMs, which seems to have satisfied Google. They've reached an unofficial agreement to let users flash their own GApps package, as long as it's distributed by itself.

It's really not in Google's interest to prevent users from putting GApps back on their devices.

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