GrapheneOS is an open source privacy and security focused mobile OS with Android - app compatibility.
+ app compatibility. It's focused on the research and development of privacy and + security technology including substantial improvements to sandboxing, exploit + mitigations and the permission model. GrapheneOS also develops various apps and + services with a focus on privacy and security. +GrapheneOS is a collaborative open source project, not a company. It's used and + supported by a variety of companies and other organizations. It won't be closely tied + to any company in particular. There will eventually be a non-profit GrapheneOS + foundation, but for now the developers represent the project.
+GrapheneOS has made substantial contributions to the privacy and security of the + Android Open Source Project, along with contributions to the Linux kernel, LLVM, + OpenBSD and other projects.
+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 + 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 + 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, + and since then they've taken to fraudulently claiming ownership and authorship of our + work which has no basis in fact. The former sponsor has engaged in a campaign of + misinformation and harassment of contributors to the project. Be aware that they are + actively trying to sabotage it through any means necessary to support their failing + business. This paragraph was reluctantly included here despite wanting to move + forwards and will be expanded if necessary.
Official releases are available on the releases page and installation instructions are on the install page.
See the GitHub organization for sources @@ -58,24 +84,6 @@ href="https://attestation.app/about">about page and tutorial. You can also extend these with support for your own builds.
-GrapheneOS is a privacy / security research and engineering project that has been - under way for over 5 years. It recently became rebranded as GrapheneOS and is taking a - different direction based on obtaining funding for the research and development work - as a non-profit open source project rather than being a company. The reborn project is - still in a very early stage and lots of the past work on privacy and security has not - yet been restored for the new incarnation of the OS.
-The grapheneos.org site is still being put together. It will have lots of - additional documentation and tutorials in the future along with coverage of various - software, firmware and hardware privacy/security topics.
-GrapheneOS is being supported with funding and developers from various companies - and other organizations interested in contributing to this shared base for a feature - rich private and secure mobile operating system able to run many existing - applications. It will take more time to organize and deploy these resources in order - for the project to have a strong development team with proper infrastructure behind - it.