I'm not upset at all.
Sorry, but that is not the way the rules work. They have no way to only let people use their work "with permission". It is not copyrighted work, and pretty much cannot be. So once it is released to the puiblic, its gone.
HTC and Google and the chip manufacturers did all the real work. Adrenlyn needs to run his little program against the base HTC code, just like liquid needs to against CM7. These guys are hypocrites. No one ever seems to remember to thank HTC for creating sense in the first place, lol.
I really like running custom ROMs and I appreciate the devs for what they do, but all this whining needs to stop.
Adrenlyn could have got his point across with a few funny remarks in the forums and come off in a 1000 times better light. And if he did do some kanging, would it have killed chingy to give some credit? They both let their egos get in the way of doing what they supposedly do for fun.
Once again, DT may be kind of an oddball and runs off madly in all directions, but you never got any of this from him. Xoom doesn't seem to do this crap either--in fact he often uses self-effacing humor. Even if they are not the best devs in terms of technical talent (hell, maybe they are?), at least they are fun to be around, which is kind of the point.