From 6ad26783082e2e80ac7d680e4cddc8cdc1046cd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Micay GrapheneOS was founded by Daniel Micay in late 2014. It started as a solo project
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 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,
- 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.