Former FSM (retired) Forum Mod Introduction

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So everybody knows, I have taken over as one of the Moderators for this forum.
Feel free to PM for questions,
Hit the report button if it's something you think I should take a look at.

Pax

EDIT FROM Moscow Desire,

Pax is now retired from FSM Duties.

MD

Originally Posted by paxChristos

So everybody knows, I have taken over as one of the Moderators for this forum.
Feel free to PM for questions,
Hit the report button if it's something you think I should take a look at.

Pax

Welcome great job thanks for being a mod;)

Welcome~!

welcome

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1711137


can u look at this thread and see if the thors kernel was ever present if it was fine if not can we get the thread reopened AOKP would be another good option for roms for the tablet.

Originally Posted by Timelord83

welcome

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1711137


can u look at this thread and see if the thors kernel was ever present if it was fine if not can we get the thread reopened AOKP would be another good option for roms for the tablet.

Why not just go get it from rootzwiki if you want it so bad?

Originally Posted by bfranklin1986

Why not just go get it from rootzwiki if you want it so bad?

I'll stick to XDA. Not everyone on here has social skills to participate in forum discussions but i find that this site has much more information and the groups of people are more eager to help troubleshoot. by unlocking the thread if its not thors kernel it opens it up to ALL of xda to help.

Originally Posted by Timelord83

I'll stick to XDA. Not everyone on here has social skills to participate in forum discussions but i find that this site has much more information and the groups of people are more eager to help troubleshoot. by unlocking the thread if its not thors kernel it opens it up to ALL of xda to help.

I'm not sure how many actually remember the events relating to this earlier this year... But it was a mess.

Thor decided to start developing a ICS rom providing (presumably under apache2) the device/vender tree to the build. Just two little tidbits were, how to say, off with his approach.

a) The device tree included his kernel still without the source code (so now we have some apache2 code.. nice but not required, and its poisoned with a closed source kernel)
b) he provided links to the github repo (now deleted and/or hidden) on XDA via adfly.

After this was reported, XDA closed the thread, Thor took down the git repo and tried to pan this off to his greater followers (probably successfully) as XDA not even allowing him in when him to work here even when his code is "open".

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While the source was open blazingwolf, ProTekk, randomblame (and some others?) managed to get the repo and clone it (or parts of it) into their own projects.. Mostly with little or no credit, and not always properly removing all traces of Thors kernel (either the main kernel was replaced with blazingwolfs open kernel, but a second copy of Thors kernel in the repo was left, or they just used thors kernel as it existed in the device tree).

In addition to this there was a recovery that used blazingwolf's kernel but otherwise was a nearly unmodified thor recovery binary (simply a hex edit to change the title, and thus hide the upstream source)

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AOKP is now using the CM9 base for the device and vender trees, so everything including the CM9 T20 kernel is open source. However I its up to the AOKP team to re-post here at this point and not someone just wanting a mirror with their own unrelated donate link.

Some locked threads to remember in relationship to this:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1353252 - ProTekk bit of ICS locked
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1426617 - randomblame recovery - locked
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1524919 - original A500 AOPK thread - locked

Just to clear this up, roms are under Apache v2 license (which doesn't require source release) kernels are under GPL which does require source release.

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Originally Posted by ezterry

I'm not sure how many actually remember the events relating to this earlier this year... But it was a mess.

Thor decided to start developing a ICS rom providing (presumably under apache2) the device/vender tree to the build. Just two little tidbits were, how to say, off with his approach.

a) The device tree included his kernel still without the source code (so now we have some apache2 code.. nice but not required, and its poisoned with a closed source kernel)
b) he provided links to the github repo (now deleted and/or hidden) on XDA via adfly.

After this was reported, XDA closed the thread, Thor took down the git repo and tried to pan this off to his greater followers (probably successfully) as XDA not even allowing him in when him to work here even when his code is "open".

--

While the source was open blazingwolf, ProTekk, randomblame (and some others?) managed to get the repo and clone it (or parts of it) into their own projects.. Mostly with little or no credit, and not always properly removing all traces of Thors kernel (either the main kernel was replaced with blazingwolfs open kernel, but a second copy of Thors kernel in the repo was left, or they just used thors kernel as it existed in the device tree).

In addition to this there was a recovery that used blazingwolf's kernel but otherwise was a nearly unmodified thor recovery binary (simply a hex edit to change the title, and thus hide the upstream source)

--

AOKP is now using the CM9 base for the device and vender trees, so everything including the CM9 T20 kernel is open source. However I its up to the AOKP team to re-post here at this point and not someone just wanting a mirror with their own unrelated donate link.

Some locked threads to remember in relationship to this:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1353252 - ProTekk bit of ICS locked
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1426617 - randomblame recovery - locked
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1524919 - original A500 AOPK thread - locked

sadly i do but the thread i linked is albeit messy with side stuff i made the assumption it was mod locked. after talking with the other people i have foudn out that the OP requested it be locked. i went and got the rom from AOKP website and as far as i can tell is Thor free and i run clockwork recovery and V8 ICS bootloader.

As for the motives for my request is i'd like to see more roms succeed for this tablet as it is "old" tech people are moving to the tegra 3 Tabs i am not ready to give up on my $567.87 less than year old purchase. I own the A501 ATT 4G LTE Variant i bought it from ATT without contract hence the price

Uhm... Hi paxChristos! Welcome to our slightly disfunctional family! I hope that you have a great time.