[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] dkelley:
preface: this is just based on how things look - my opinion and all that - and I have to admit that imb951 may not have been involved based simply on a "victory" icon posted in both threads of this developer shortly after they were discontinued...

back to my post:

who ARE you anyway?

Why is this a victory? Sounds more like a witch hunt. Give the guy a break. There was no official CM build here and he was doing things his own way with his own mods, and distributing his own version of THE ONLY OC kernel that worked on non-CM ICS roms for the note. If it was based upon CM code then fine, get him to publicize that and push his code back to github. Don't make him stop providing some of the most talked about and helpful threads to the community of samsung note owners.

IMHO you have shown some disappointing behaviour which is not a very good way to represent CM's team, if in fact that is what you feel you were doing.

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too late - your original post has already been quoted.

Ya know - with GPL licenses there is a set of processes you are encouraged to follow when reporting somebody. If HW was repeatedly warned in private and still never complied then fine, follow through (again in private as must have been done here), but still it's sad to see someone helping us all out being forced to stop offering his work, specially when he was giving credit where it was due (he gave credit to CM for the work in this rom). But if he wasn't warned effectively and given time to comply and treated with some amount of respect and dignity (which unfortunately is how these things are sometimes handled by people who are concerned about the GPL not being followed to a tee) then truly this is disappointing. I wouldn't point that out at all as it's purely conjecture, but based on your "victory" icon post here and in his kernel thread it seems to me rather likely to have been you, or you with someone else, going out of your way to make someone else remove their contributions to this forum/phone.

Oh well, I've made my points articulately, time to get back to the other threads and enjoy the great firmware.

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UPDATE: hmmmm... who to believe. who to believe. :-)

ok, I'll admit it may not have been you who was involved. Ya never know, and certainly I don't know.

If you had nothing to do with it then I do truly apologize.

The smiley face was called "victory" and you posted those smiley faces in both his threads shortly after they were discontinued while other people were commenting about how strange and sad it was that his threads were closed. The smiley face "victory" posts had no other content so it does look like you were proud to see his threads become discontinued. This is, typically, what the word victory means, but again it's possible you didn't know that the smiley in question is called victory and maybe you didn't realize that smiling about threads being discontinued suggests your agreement that the threads should have been closed.

You can see why it came across that way, specially with the history on XDA of people being monitored with sticks and stones about GPL compliance and with this developer admitting publicly that he has been asked to stop posting his work due to GPL complications.

It fits, so I (and others) made the logical conclusion.

I'll tentatively apologize though since I had no firm basis for assuming the person who did this was you.

However, someone did this, and whoever did it has imho earned the comments I wrote above, so if I learn who it was I'll change the person mentioned accordingly.