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selling support, contract work and customized proprietary variants of the OS. The
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selling support, contract work and customized proprietary variants of the OS. The
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company was supposed to serve the needs of the open source project, rather than vice
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company was supposed to serve the needs of the open source project, rather than vice
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versa. It was explicitly agreed that GrapheneOS would remain independently owned and
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versa. It was explicitly agreed that GrapheneOS would remain independently owned and
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controlled by the developers. The company failed to live up the promises and is no
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controlled by Daniel Micay. The company failed to live up the promises and is no
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longer associated in any way with GrapheneOS.</p>
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longer associated in any way with GrapheneOS.</p>
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<p>The former sponsor attempted to take over the project through coercion, but they
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were rebuked. Since then, they've taken to fraudulently claiming ownership and
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authorship of our work which has no basis in fact. The former sponsor has engaged in a
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campaign of misinformation and harassment of contributors to the project. Be aware
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that they are actively trying to sabotage it through any means necessary while
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continuing to profit from our work.</p>
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<p>The copyright for GrapheneOS code is entirely owned by the GrapheneOS developers
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<p>The copyright for GrapheneOS code is entirely owned by the GrapheneOS developers
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and is made available under OSI-approved Open Source licenses. The tiny portion of the
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and is made available under OSI-approved Open Source licenses. The tiny portion of the
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code written by people under contract with the former sponsor was removed from the
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code written by people under contract with the former sponsor was removed from the
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code that remains from the previous era is entirely owned by Daniel Micay, was never
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code that remains from the previous era is entirely owned by Daniel Micay, was never
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written under any contracts or employment agreements, was never assigned to any
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written under any contracts or employment agreements, was never assigned to any
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company or organization and was the continuation of the original independent open
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company or organization and was the continuation of the original independent open
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source project.</p>
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source project. The code was originally published under the same permissive open
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source licenses that are used by GrapheneOS today and the copyright ownership is largely
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<p>The former sponsor attempted to take over the project through coercion, but they
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irrelevant due to it being an open source project. The upstream licensing is inherited
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were rebuked. Since then, they've taken to fraudulently claiming ownership and
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for modifications to those projects and MIT licensing is used for our own standalone
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authorship of our work which has no basis in fact. The former sponsor has engaged in a
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projects. There was an era from September 2016 until the project split from the former
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campaign of misinformation and harassment of contributors to the project. Be aware
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sponsor in mid 2018 where non-commercial usage licensing was used for revisions to the
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that they are actively trying to sabotage it through any means necessary while
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existing open source code. This was an attempt to prop up the project's sponsor which
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continuing to profit from our work.</p>
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was not succeeding in building a business. The licensing was not the real problem and
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GrapheneOS has gone back to the original open source licensing predating the misguided
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sponsorship agreement. Code from that era not owned by Daniel Micay was omitted from
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the project when it was ported to Android Oreo and rebranded as the AndroidHardening
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project and then GrapheneOS. There is no code in GrapheneOS tainted by non-commercial
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usage licensing. It was largely rewritten from scratch for Oreo and later and all the
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portions based on earlier work are unquestionably owned by the developers who are free
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to choose new licenses for the code.</p>
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<p>This section was included here in response to the ongoing attacks on the project by
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<p>This section was included here in response to the ongoing attacks on the project by
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the former sponsor. It will be substantially expanded in the near future.</p>
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the former sponsor. It will be substantially expanded in the near future.</p>
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