Google has ordered a custom Android developer to stop distributing his software because it includes the search giant's proprietary applications such as YouTube, Gmail and Maps.

The programmer of the CyanogenMod ROM was served a cease-and-desist order because Google took issue with the software for modifying and distributing its applications.

CyanogenMod ROM is an Android modification created by developer Steve Kondik that offers all the same functions of the standard-fare mobile OS, but also provides bundled applications, faster runtime and additional features that can't be found on conventional Android.

For example, CyanogenMod let users of the G1 smartphone run applications stored on the memory card, which wasn't possible with the standard OS. Kondik claimed the mod has more than 30,000 users.

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) does support custom Android builds, but clarified in a lengthy blog post on the incident that although the OS was issued to be modified and distributed, Google apps are not.

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