After months of internal disturbance, Cyanogen has finally announced its closure on December 31. It will shut down all services and nightly builds. The company revealed that the move is a part of the ongoing consolidation of Cyanogen.
"The open source project and source code will remain available for anyone who wants to build CyanogenMod personally," the Cyanogen team said in a blog post.With this, CyanogenMod will be killed, though the company has already confirmed its next open-source initiative dubbed Lineage.
With Cyanogen services being shut down, smartphones like OnePlus One and Lenovo Zuk Z1 running CyanogenOS won't be receiving any further updates from Cyanogen, while the CyanogenMod open-source project is officially being shut down - however, the community has a transition plan in mind, to Lineage OS.
"It will come as no surprise that this most recent action from Cyngn [Cyanogen] is definitely a death blow for CyanogenMod," the team wrote. In a separate blog post, the CyanogenMod team explained how decisions taken by Cyanogen were affecting the CyanogenMod development and also approves that the development was dependent on Cyanogen's financial support and the shared source base.
"Cyanogen Inc (Cyngn) announced that they were shutting down the infrastructure behind CyanogenMod (CM). This is an action that was not unpredictable given the public departure of Kondik (cyanogen himself) from the company, and with him our last remaining advocate inside Cyngn's leadership. In addition to infrastructure being retired, we in the CM community have lost our voice in the future direction of CM - the brand could be sold to a third party entity as it was an asset that Kondik risked to start his business and dream. Even if we were to regroup and rebuild our own infrastructure, continuing development of CM would mean to operate with the threat of sale of the brand looming over our heads. Then there is the stigma that has grown to be attached to anything named 'Cyanogen'. Many of you reading this have been champions of clarifying that the CM product and CyngnOS were distinct, yet the stain of many PR actions from Cyngn is a hard one to remove from CM. Given CM's reliance on Cyngn for monetary support and the shared source base, it's not hard to understand why the confusion remains," explained the CyanogenMod team.
The company also confirmed its next open-source initiative LineageOS with some of the original team on board carrying forward CyanogenMod development, however, in a new look: "Embracing that spirit, we the community of developers, designers, device maintainers and translators have taken the steps necessary to produce a fork of the CM source code and pending patches. This is more than just a 'rebrand'. This fork will return to the grassroots community effort that used to define CM while maintaining the professional quality and reliability you have come to expect more recently," added the team in blog post.
Source: Cyanogen
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