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<p>GrapheneOS was founded by Daniel Micay in late 2014. It started as a solo project
incorporating his previous open source privacy/security work.</p>
incorporating his previous open source privacy/security work. The project initially
created a port of OpenBSD malloc to Android's Bionic libc and a port of the PaX kernel
patches to the kernels for the supported devices. It quickly expanded to having a
large set of homegrown privacy and security improvements, particularly low-level
hardening work on the compiler toolchain and Bionic. Work began on landing code
upstream in AOSP and other upstream projects. A substantial portion of these early
changes were either successfully landed upstream or heavily influenced the upstream
changes which replaced them. The project was able to move very quickly in these days
because there was so much low hanging fruit to address and it wasn't yet trying to
produce a highly robust, production quality OS.</p>
<p>In late 2015, a company was incorporated which became the primary sponsor of the
project. The intention was to use the company to build a business around GrapheneOS
selling support, contract work and customized proprietary variants of the OS. The
company was supposed to serve the needs of the open source project, rather than vice
versa. It was explicitly agreed that GrapheneOS would remain independently owned and
controlled by Daniel Micay. The company failed to live up the promises and is no
controlled by Daniel Micay. This company failed to live up the promises and is no
longer associated in any way with GrapheneOS.</p>
<p>The former sponsor attempted to take over the project through coercion, but they