GrapheneOS was founded by Daniel Micay in late 2014. It started as a solo project - was subsequently sponsored by a company that is no longer associated with it. The + and was subsequently sponsored by a company that is no longer associated with it. The copyright for GrapheneOS code is entirely owned by the GrapheneOS developers and is - made available under OSI approved Open Source licenses. All of the code written by - people under contract with the former sponsor was removed from the project due to - becoming obsolete, long before it was known as GrapheneOS. The code that remains from - the previous era is entirely owned by Daniel Micay, was never written under any + made available under OSI-approved Open Source licenses. All of the code written by + people under contract with the former sponsor was removed from the project due to the + code becoming obsolete, long before it was known as GrapheneOS. The code that remains + from the previous era is entirely owned by Daniel Micay, was never written under any contracts or employment agreements, was never assigned to any company or organization and was the continuation of the original independent open source project. The former sponsor attempted to take over the project through coercion, but they were rebuked,