When Google startedhurling lawyerismsat the maker of the souped - up , plunder - downCyanogen custom Android ROMs , the outlook was pretty grim . Luckily for Android hackers , Cyanogen and Google havereachedan agreeable , albeit still stupid , compromise .
https://gizmodo.com/google-threatens-cyanogen-android-hacker-with-cease-and-5367420
The effect Google takes with CyanogenMod is n’t that it essentially changes Android — they’re generally open to that , seeing as it ’s an overt source projection and all — but that the tradition ROMs contain binary program of Google proprietary applications , like Maps , Talk and Gmail . Of course , this is a technicality , because the twist Cyanogen writes his customs fixed storage for all ship with these apps in the first place . That ’s why Google ’s cease and desist spree seemed so silly , but also why it ’ll be so easy tolegally circumvent . From Cyanogen :
Since I do n’t work with any of these closed reservoir app instantly , what I intend to do is simply send the next version of CyanogenMod as a “ bare bones ” ROM . You ’ll be able to make calls , MMS , take photos , etc . In edict to get our darling Google sync and applications back , you ’ll need to make a backup first . I ’m working on an software that will do this for you .
I mean , I ’m happy this wo n’t amount to more than a small excrescence in the road for Cyanogen , but what exactly did Google accomplish here , by from some uproariously bad Porto Rico ?
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