clarify past build vs. source licensing difference

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Daniel Micay 2021-02-23 11:37:11 -05:00
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replaced by rewrites taking better approaches than in the past.</p>
<p>There was an era from September 2016 until the project split from the former
sponsor in 2018 where non-commercial usage licensing was used for revisions to the
existing permissively licensed code. This was an attempt to prop up the sponsor that
was supposed to be supporting the open source project. This did not impact ownership
of the code and Daniel Micay has relicensed the portions of the code that are used by
GrapheneOS. GrapheneOS does not contain any code based on code under non-commercial
usage licensing. Great care was taken to avoid pulling in anything that was not solely
owned by Daniel Micay, which was the case for nearly everything in the project.</p>
sponsor in 2018 where non-commercial usage licensing was used for the official
builds and from January 2017 onwards for revisions to the existing permissively
licensed code. This was an attempt to prop up the sponsor that was supposed to be
supporting the open source project. This did not impact ownership of the code and
Daniel Micay has relicensed the portions of the code that are used by GrapheneOS.
GrapheneOS does not contain any code based on code under non-commercial usage
licensing. Great care was taken to avoid pulling in anything that was not solely
owned by Daniel Micay, which was the case for nearly everything in the
project.</p>
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