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<h1><a href="#history">History</a></h1>
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<p>GrapheneOS was founded by Daniel Micay in late 2014. It started as a solo project
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incorporating his previous open source privacy/security work. The project initially
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created a port of OpenBSD malloc to Android's Bionic libc and a port of the PaX kernel
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patches to the kernels for the supported devices. It quickly expanded to having a
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large set of homegrown privacy and security improvements, particularly low-level
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hardening work on the compiler toolchain and Bionic. Work began on landing code
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upstream in AOSP and other upstream projects. A substantial portion of these early
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changes were either successfully landed upstream or heavily influenced the upstream
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changes which replaced them. The project was able to move very quickly in these days
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because there was so much low hanging fruit to address and it wasn't yet trying to
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produce a highly robust, production quality OS.</p>
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<p>In late 2015, a company was incorporated which became the primary sponsor of the
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project. GrapheneOS was previously known as CopperheadOS while it was sponsored by
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this company. The intention was to use the company to build a business around
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GrapheneOS selling support, contract work and customized proprietary variants of the
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OS. The company was supposed to serve the needs of the open source project, rather
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than vice versa. It was explicitly agreed that GrapheneOS would remain
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independently owned and controlled by Daniel Micay. This company failed to live up
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the promises and is no longer associated in any way with GrapheneOS. The company
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ended up holding back the open source project and taking far more from it than was
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provided to it.</p>
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<p>In 2018, the company was hijacked by the CEO who attempted to take over the project
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through coercion, but they were rebuked. They seized the infrastructure and stole the
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donations, but the project successfully moved on without them and has been fully
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revived. Since then, they've taken to fraudulently claiming ownership and authorship
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of our work, which has no basis in fact. They've tried to retroactively change the
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terms of their involvement and rewrite the history of the project. These claims are
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easily falsified through the public record and by people involved with the open source
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project and the former sponsor. This former sponsor has engaged in a campaign of
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misinformation and harassment of contributors to the project. Be aware that they are
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actively trying to sabotage GrapheneOS and are engaging in many forms of attacks
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against the project, the developers, contributors and supporters. Meanwhile, they
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continue profiting from our open source work which they falsely claim as their own
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creation.</p>
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<p>After splitting from the former sponsor, the project was rebranded to
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AndroidHardening and then to GrapheneOS and it has continued down the original path of
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being an independent open source project. It will never again be closely tied to any
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particular sponsor or company.</p>
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<p>GrapheneOS now has multiple full-time and part-time developers supported by
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donations and multiple companies collaborating with the project.</p>
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