[Xperia Z General] egzthunder1:
If I may,

* That thread is not in Original Android Development but rather in Android Development. The reason why yours exists here and not there is because you are actually doing work on the build. He simply grabbed your (and seems that Starfighter's) work, mashed it together, and released it. At no point in there does he state that he is the sole author of the ROM (and he is giving credits).

* GPL: GPL states that you must provide sources to kernels posted. IF he has no access to the sources (not sure why he wouldn't as this is AOSP), a simple link to this here thread satisfies the GPL requirements as he is pointing to sources, which you have in your OP. It would be nice for the OP to add the link to the kernel repo and the remaining requirements by GPL (directly), but there is nothing stated anywhere (that I can find anyways) where it says that the links need to be direct to source.

I agree with you in the fact that the other rom you linked to is not development, but truth be told, I read his OP and nowhere in there does he states it is a development project. He simply grabbed something he found online, added a few things, and shared it with the community to see if someone else liked the combination of work. He is effectively saving other people from having to manually add add-ons to your ROM. Quite frankly, since he is not claiming credit on any part of that OP, I personally see no harm (and certainly no indication of that being a kang). I mean, for Pete's sake, the OP does not even have a "Donate" (font size=200 with flashing lights) like many others do. He is simply sharing his early experience with Android... And it is (going back to an earlier point) not even diluting the actual development sections simply because it is not in Original Development.

This will ultimately be your decision as far as what you want to do regarding your work and time spent on xda. I will not beg of you to stay nor will I kick you out of the site, but do know (and please understand) that us (moderators and admins) do our absolute best in order to keep this place, a 5.3 million member site, in check. Our team has slightly over 100 moderators which means that with a daily traffic of roughly 40,000 members online at any given time (and assuming that ALL mods were online at all times which is nowhere near the case), you are looking at a ratio of 400 members per moderator, spread over 150+ devices (with an average of 4 sub-sections per device forum). This last part is in response to your allegation of the need to report being a "kindergarten" effort. We are not omniscient and we (for better or worse) rely on all our good members to let us know when something goes amiss.

I apologize in the name of the moderation team for having made some of your earlier posts disappear. It was not the intention of the acting mod to delete anything important, but rather to clean up a development thread from talk that did not really belong in it in the first place (I read the posts in question and they were not development related at all but rather pseudo-inflammatory accusations flying back and forth laced with everyone and their grandmother adding unwanted/unneeded 2 cents, thus adding fuel to the fire). It was not ill intended and I will be more than happy to restore them if you want (after all, OPs do have some say on the level of OT allowed in their threads).

Please feel free to pm me if you have any questions or concerns. Thank you.

Sincerely,

egzthunder1

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