[ONE Original Android Development] nicholaschum:
Sultan, in no way has my post intentionally targeted you, however I do understand why you might think it was - due to the fact that I questioned the reason this ROM was located in the Original Android Development section on XDA.

The reason why I questioned this, is due to the fact that I have been lingering in the Nexus 6 and 6P forums quite some time, over there, we do not have the same "rules" of Android Development compared to devices like Samsung, where most TouchWiz stuff (stock rom) goes to "Android Development" and most AOSP stuff goes to "Original Android Development" (2011). I am unsure about the OnePlus One anymore, as they left the stock Cyanogen OS and opted for either Oxygen or Hydrogen OS. Most ROMs, such as Team EOS which was CM based, was pushed to Original Android Development with the physical development of Fling, now moved on to Dirty Unicorns (Which was an AOSP based ROM with Theme Engine).

Source: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2112240

The idea of Original Android Development should be that it should stand on it's own with it's own merits with "first of it's kind" development. I am NOT discrediting your work here, I am just clarifying where I stand on why I questioned the Original-ness of the ROM. I commend your work to all the OPO users who want a stable ROM. One might question though, how can you say AOSP is any different from CM? I personally won't comment on that as that is a completely different debate, but I'd like to ask, how different is this ROM (excluding all CM commits) to ROMs like Dirty Unicorns, where they currently have Fling and Pulse (nav bars with gesture based navigation), or Paranoid Android where they HAD Hybrid UI, Heads Up (prior to 4.1) and Halo?

AOSP is an open source project, to kang is to submit work to someone or some thing (Github) and pass it off as your own. If you want to understand more of kanging, you can go check out the old unmodified forks of Team Bliss repos, or the unmodified forks of Chroma and Benzo ROMs. Kanging is intentionally taking credit over something and not changing their ways, continuing to take over authorship and claim it as their own. The above ROMs have since amended all their incorrect authorships and thus began promoting good, open source development, and thus, shouldn't be labeled as "kangers" but a developer who has "kanged" but changed their ways.

I'm NOT saying anyone was kanging here, the idea previously was that if an XDA member decided to go on his own to Google and attempt to get a ROM certified without the consent of the main parties in question (Sultan and CyanogenMod), then the shared ethos could stand about kanging. You're right about the licensing, that's why OEMs keep their Android skins closed source so people can't submit work like this directly to Google. You're also right about not being an OEM. If I could list all the reasons and ways to become certified in that small post, then Google won't need to make it so complicated, and everyone would be one.

Again, Sultan, I commend your work and all that you do for the community. I'm not speaking out of hate or grudge against you, but I've had the OPO since the first month, and I stalked the OnePlus.net forums really well, and I know (and I'm pretty sure you know too) that most people have no clue what they are talking about when it came to development, the word "kang" and the word "development". However, my question about the distinguishing factor between this ROM and the big Original Android Development ROMs still stand, mainly because even I want to understand what could stipulate being an Original Android Development ROM.

Please don't take this personally, as it is NOT an attack on you or your work.