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and is made available under OSI-approved Open Source licenses. The upstream licensing
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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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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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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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developers have always owned their own contributions, including for code written
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from 2014 up to the rebranding to GrapheneOS in 2019.</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 from Android Oreo to
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Pie in 2018. This code became obsolete and was no longer useful. The vast majority of
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the code from the previous era was owned by Daniel Micay, with very few exceptions. It
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was never written under any contracts or employment agreements, was never assigned to
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any 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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<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 the official
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sponsor in 2018 where non-commercial usage licensing was used for the official
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builds and from January 2017 onwards for revisions to the existing permissively
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builds and from January 2017 onwards for revisions to the existing permissively
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licensed code. This was an attempt to prop up the sponsor that was supposed to be
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licensed code. This was an attempt to prop up the sponsor that was supposed to be
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supporting the open source project. This did not impact ownership of the code and
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supporting the open source project. This did not impact ownership of the code and
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Daniel Micay has relicensed the portions of the code that are used by GrapheneOS.
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the copyright owners have relicensed the portions of the code that are used by
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GrapheneOS does not contain any code based on code under non-commercial usage
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GrapheneOS under open source licenses. GrapheneOS does not contain any code based
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licensing. Great care was taken to avoid pulling in anything that was not solely
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on code under non-commercial usage licensing.</p>
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owned by Daniel Micay, which was the case for nearly everything in the
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project.</p>
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