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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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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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project due to the code becoming obsolete, long before it was known as GrapheneOS. The
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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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company or organization and was the continuation of the original independent open
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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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irrelevant due to it being an open source project. The upstream licensing is inherited
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for modifications to those projects and MIT licensing is used for our own standalone
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projects. There was an era from September 2016 until the project split from the former
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sponsor in mid 2018 where non-commercial usage licensing was used for revisions to the
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existing open source code. This was an attempt to prop up the project's sponsor which
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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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the former sponsor. It will be substantially expanded in the near future.</p>
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<h2 id="copyright-and-licensing">
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<a href="#copyright-and-licensing">Copyright and licensing</a>
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</h2>
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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 upstream licensing
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is inherited for the modifications to those projects and MIT licensing is used for our
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own standalone projects. GrapheneOS has never had any copyright assignment and the
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developers have always owned their own contributions.</p>
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<p>The tiny portion of the code written by people under contract with the former
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sponsor has not been included in the project since it was ported to Android Oreo in
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2018. This code became obsolete and was no longer useful. The vast majority of the
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code from the previous era was owned by Daniel Micay, with very few exceptions. It was
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never 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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source project. The code was originally published under the same permissive open
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source licenses that are used by GrapheneOS today. Only a small portion of this
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historical code is actually still in use today. Most has become obsolete or has been
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replaced by rewrites taking better approaches than in the past.</p>
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<p>There was an era from September 2016 until the project split from the former
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sponsor in 2018 where non-commercial usage licensing was used for revisions to the
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existing permissively licensed code. This was an attempt to prop up the sponsor that
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was supposed to be supporting the open source project. This did not impact ownership
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of the code and Daniel Micay has relicensed the portions of the code that are used by
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GrapheneOS. GrapheneOS does not contain any code based on code under non-commercial
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usage licensing. Great care was taken to avoid pulling in anything that was not solely
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owned by Daniel Micay, which was the case for nearly everything in the project.</p>
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<h2 id="roadmap">
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<a href="#roadmap">Roadmap</a>
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</h2>
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