[Nexus 5 General] zelendel:
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I have the privilege of asking you to update your sources with the proper commit history or have your work removed from XDA.

You say "Special Thanks to All Developers of XDA Forum for sharing information" but forking another developers repo and then cleaning out all the change history and making it look like you did all the work is not allowed on XDA and you know this.

I have given you chances in the past to fix your licensing issues concerning your distributing others work as your own.

THIS MUST STOP!!!! Or you will be forced to use G+ as your only forum for the sharing of stolen work.

If you do not know what I am talking about then read this before you make yourself look noobish...

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The Apache license in the whole is found here.....http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

This license requires ALL previous changes to be given their proper credits.

I received a large amount of evidence that this ROM is in violation of the XDA Rules by not complying with the license requirements.

Using others work as your own is a huge ethical and moral issue for yourself to resolve. And to ask for donations for such work may be considered illegal.

We at XDA are here to preserve the works & rights of our developers and to ensure that unscrupulous users will not take advantage of our site.

I am giving you 48 hours to resolve all issues of having others work re-branded as your own,

Or your XDA account will be reviewed for removal.

You can remove all of the downloads and request closing of threads to meet the 48 hour timeline while you make the proper changes.

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For users that do not understand this stuff, I am sorry.

But the license and the Rules are the XDA rule of law and they need to followed.

If you have questions or comments please do your research before asking me via PM.

I do not want any PMs saying "why did you close this awesome ROM thread, it's my favorite!!"

If you have information that will help in my decision please send it.