[Ned Scott]

I understand your point j1nx, but AFAIK the sponsorship agreement doesn't contain a clause yet that we are allowed to remove the logo under certain circumstances, so at least we fulfill our part of the agreement even though it sucks. Please note that this is just my assumption - I'm not involved in the sponsorship stuff and also don't know the agreement in detail.

That was my assumption as well. As far as I know, their sponsorship has expired, and all of Team Kodi has rejected the idea of renewal. The fact that their logo is still on the website is most likely an oversight, similar to how sourceforce's logo is still on our mirrors pages even though we left sourceforce a looooooong time ago.

Several months ago VidOnMe was "slow" to release their source code. On more than one occasion they even promoted some of the piracy/bootleg add-ons on their twitter account. At that point we made it a clause of all future sponsorships that non-GPL compliance and/or promoting bootleg/pirate add-ons/services would result in removal of sponsorship status. WeTek and MiniX, the only two HTPC hardware venders that are active diamond sponsors right now, have agreed to those terms.

@j1nx I like you, you've always been a nice guy and one of the better groups that have reused XBMC/Kodi. I don't think you deserve the harsh words you have received here from others. I think your assumptions have come from a lack of communication on our part, and we only have ourselves to blame for that.

With all that said, yeah, let's get that VidOnMe logo off our site.

EDIT: Looks like their sponsorship actually expires on May 18th.