Mobile software developer Cyanogen announced that it's shut down its services and left further development of the CyanogenMod system, used notably on OnePlus phones, to the open-source community.
In a brief statement on its website, the company said that "as part of the ongoing consolidation of Cyanogen, all services and Cyanogen-supported nightly builds will be discontinued no later than 12/31/16". The open source project and source code will remain available for anyone who wants to build CyanogenMod personally, it added.
The CyangoenMod website has already gone offline, but its backers relaunched the project under the new name Lineage. They said the LineageOS will be the continuation of CyanogenMod and the "definition of open". The statement added: "A company pulling their support out of an open source project does not mean it has to die."
The news comes less than a month after Cyanogen announced a restructuring and the departure of its founder Steve Kondik. Kondik started the CyanogenMod operating system as an Android fork for smartphones and was expected to continue the work on the system on his own, while Cyanogen focuses more on app development. Cyanogen the company counts among its investors Telefonica, Twitter, Qualcomm and Foxconn.
