LineageOS hopes to bring back the "grassroots community efforts" that CyanogenMod was once known for

Yesterday, we told you that Cyanogen, the corporate structure that was housing CyanogenMod, was closing effective December 31st. Some of the developers, designers and others who worked on CyanogenMod, are now working on forking the source code and related patches to a new open source project called LineageOS. This confirms that the GitHub repository found populated with CM files the other day, called Lineage Android Distribution, was in fact the beginning of this new open source project that "will be a continuation of what CyanogenMod was."

Why not just continue using the CyanogenMod name? ...