ROMS and rights - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

What you ppl think about this:
"I do NOT give permissions to anyone to use anything from this ROM in your own ROM."
Do this means I cannot use that roms kernel which he take from other ROM??? Or he mean that he build that kernel or core stuff himself?

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gintsgints said:
What you ppl think about this:
"I do NOT give permissions to anyone to use anything from this ROM in your own ROM."
Do this means I cannot use that roms kernel which he take from other ROM??? Or he mean that he build that kernel or core stuff himself?
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where did you see this? link?

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gintsgints said:
What you ppl think about this:
"I do NOT give permissions to anyone to use anything from this ROM in your own ROM."
Do this means I cannot use that roms kernel which he take from other ROM??? Or he mean that he build that kernel or core stuff himself?
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if you are going to release a rom on xda and going to use parts of someone else's rom then he does not give you permission for that. if you are going to use parts of someone else's rom but it is for your own pleasure you can go ahead and do so if you want. hope that makes it clearer

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Stifler69 is right. As long as it's home use only and you don't claim its your own work and promptly publish it you should be fine.
Dc
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A its a question ,
B i use roms and kernels from many sources in my phone but i am not posting so its not a problem .
C if its your own phone and not posted who knows what you use
D you can not then moan or ask for specific rom help if you have changed the original components .
I use xx rom but a different kernel own CSC and ICS modem .
jje

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i know where that is from. it's fine as long as you don't publish what you took and claim it as your own.
i can understand why he is being this way. he spent time and effort trying to bring all of those features to his rom and people just take them, put them in their roms and don't even bother giving him credits. i even read once a foreign forum mod copied his whole rom and just renamed it then published it as his. you can imagine what he felt. yet he still let them go. then he got reported (reason unclear) by a rom dev who was using his work and got banned. that's why he's now doing what he's doing.
anyway, i'm sure you can find out more details from the android dev forum if you look hard enough.

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Personal use is fine, but you can't go re-posting it, or trying to sell it for donations etc...
Basically, it's common courtesy, that person is simply saying they don't want people kanging them.

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Yes. I can understund him. I can understund about his artwork or somthin. But still...
Why I cannot reuse some parts... probably open source ones? He does not do that? Where is that line when Open source components becomes his property?
PS. I have worked on a lot open source projects... and I will never ask for credits. It's fine if you get some.
PSPS. Do he recognise how much open source projects put they work on making that rom to work at all?

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I understand your point, but that's the rules of XDA (rule #12). And those we accept and agree when joining the forum.
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Well the linux kernel used by all ROMs is GPLv2 licenced, so no one has any right to say that anyone else cannot reuse it, and they have a responsibility to release their source code if they modify it.
As for the rest of the ROM, asking people not to use its contents seems a bit unreasonable and disingenuous to me. All the ROMs people release here are the culmination of all the work others have done, and include lots of stuff that other people have shared freely.