From b5b695f03ea4298b78ae2efe2764b5507bb4d71a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Micay Date: Fri, 5 May 2023 19:16:23 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] clean up copyright section in FAQ --- static/faq.html | 22 +++++----------------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/static/faq.html b/static/faq.html index 7f20a413..733c84fd 100644 --- a/static/faq.html +++ b/static/faq.html @@ -1815,29 +1815,17 @@ and is made available under OSI-approved Open Source licenses. The upstream licensing is inherited for the modifications to those projects and MIT licensing is used for our own standalone projects. GrapheneOS has never had any copyright assignment and the - developers have always owned their own contributions.

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The tiny portion of the code written by people under contract with the former - sponsor has not been included in the project since it was ported from Android Oreo to - Pie in 2018. This code became obsolete and was no longer useful. The vast majority of - the code from the previous era was owned by Daniel Micay, with very few exceptions. It - 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 code was originally published under the same permissive open - source licenses that are used by GrapheneOS today. Only a small portion of this - historical code is actually still in use today. Most has become obsolete or has been - replaced by rewrites taking better approaches than in the past.

+ developers have always owned their own contributions, including for code written + from 2014 up to the rebranding to GrapheneOS in 2019.

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 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.

+ the copyright owners have relicensed the portions of the code that are used by + GrapheneOS under open source licenses. GrapheneOS does not contain any code based + on code under non-commercial usage licensing.