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fghjllpours··on CyanogenMod Inc. Reorganizes, Severs Ties with Project Founder
And the fact that they support old phones, and their privacy guard is better than stock android
fghjllpours··on CyanogenMod Inc. Reorganizes, Severs Ties with Project Founder
1. Not all core devs were invited

2. He tried getting some GPL software relicensed as Apache under false pretenses.

But this is what confuses me. If you don't want this happening, why license your code as Apache?

If Samsung would have done this, this would have been hailed as a success of non-copyleft licenses (like when MS used BSD's network stack). Why do they have a problem when a core dev does is?

fghjllpours··on CyanogenMod Inc. Reorganizes, Severs Ties with Project Founder
Is this the end of custom ROMs?

Between Xposed and a "better" standard android, a lot of the "big" custom ROMs have bit the dust. Aokp, paranoid, slim, omni is moribund, and now CM?