I realize how unpopular I am around here, particularly because I call it like I see it with this sort of stuff. But I'm going to nutshell the whole thing anyway, and I'll
try to do it without using bad language.
From what I understand, BlackDroid basically compiled most of his ROMs with great bits taken from other developers' ROMs, and created what you might call "super ROMs". That is, he created ROMs that didn't have only the one special "signature feature" that each developer spotlighted in their own ROMs. You could get almost all of the latest cool signature features in one ROM without having to settle for not having one developer's feature to get another's.
He was very successful at this. Because his ROMs became so popular, it was realized that he had not been accrediting developers for these features, though anyone keeping up with who was doing what already well knew who to thank for what. Anyone who didn't wasn't ever going to care anyway.
Eventually someone called BlackDroid on this practice, and there was a terrific battle of the cyber-morons, all with their own perspective, all with their own little "ethical pratice" clinic-bombing diatribe to add. Everybody had a voice that HAD to be heard, as if anybody should've ever cared in the first place. BlackDroid was BOMBARDED with accusation, and when it came to technicalities and definitions, he is ultimately reported to have "admitted" to this horrific wrong-doing.
It's all BS, and it's all sour grapes. If BD's ROMs weren't so popular, no one would have cared! But because all the Mama's basement dwelling computer nerd rock stars couldn't get their crap together and work together on a kick-ass ROM, there was a void. Each little rock star had his little groupies, and meanwhile BlackDroid was throwing out a Jam-stock ROM that included everybody's goodies.
Oh well, too bad for you guys. Crucifying BD on every forum has only made him a stronger name, despite the fact that anyone who runs his ROM and asks specific questions about it on this forum (and others) is given a cold shoulder.
"How do I get such n' such to work on BD's latest ROM?"
"I wouldn't know, my ethical standards are too high to let that kind of ROM touch my Droid."
ANYONE stating that members running a BD ROM are not ostracized here is downright
lying.
It's over, people. The whole thing is OVER. Get over it (and yourselves) and stop injecting every thread that mentions BD or his ROMs with your Open Source ethics & morality tripe. No one cares! Just don't run the thing, that's all. You're only making yourselves look smug & pompous when you have to finish a post about a BD ROM, no matter how neutral, with, "But I'd never run it.". No one asked, and because you weren't asked if you'd run it, you just look like a smug, pompous jerk. Really.