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We'll want to fill in more details about the history of the project and historical archives of the code, documentation, tweets, community, etc. This will help us with trimming down the information on CopperheadOS in the history page. We want to reduce emphasis on the ongoing conflict and focus on informing people about what happened in the past. Immense damage has been done to GrapheneOS by Copperhead's organized misinformation campaign and we need to do our best to repair it.
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<li><a href="/">GrapheneOS</a></li>
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<h1><a href="#copperheados">CopperheadOS is now GrapheneOS</a></h1>
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<p>CopperheadOS was renamed to GrapheneOS in 2019. It was temporarily known as the
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Android Hardening project in 2018 before a permanent name had been chosen. For more
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details on why the project was renamed, see <a href="/history/">our history page</a>.
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For the historical release notes of the original CopperheadOS, see
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<a href="/history/legacy-changelog">our legacy changelog page</a>. The
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<a href="https://reddit.com/r/CopperheadOS">/r/CopperheadOS subreddit</a> was
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historically the central hub of the community along with a bridged IRC/Matrix channel
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that's no longer available.</p>
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<p>GrapheneOS is the continuation of the original open source project by the original
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development team. Our <a href="/source">source code repositories</a> have been used
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since CopperheadOS transitioned to being directly based on the Android Open Source
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Project in 2015. The prior repositories predate the CopperheadOS branding and were
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also owned by us. It can be confirmed that our repositories are the original ones from
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the GitHub network graphs showing the forks over the years.</p>
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<section id="ownership">
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<h2><a href="#ownership">Ownership</a></h2>
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<p>We own the historical CopperheadOS source code, documentation and accounts tied
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to the open source project. Our legacy Twitter account still needs to be returned
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to us so that it can be renamed and made into an archive.</p>
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<p>Copperhead has no valid claim over the ownership of the source code. It was not
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developed for them. They were involved as a sponsor for the work and had
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permission to sell products based on it, similar to companies selling devices with
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GrapheneOS. We've learned a lot of lessons from what happened and are being very
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careful to avoid being strongly associated with any particular company in the
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future.</p>
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</section>
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<section id="new-product">
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<h2><a href="#new-product">New closed source product reusing the legacy branding</a></h2>
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<p>The new product branded as CopperheadOS is closed source and not associated with
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the original project. They took our project's previous name and copied our legacy
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source code and documentation. Attribution to us has been stripped away and they
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pretend to be the ones who created it.</p>
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<p>They've essentially stolen the identity of our open source project and have
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invested substantial resources into misrepresenting GrapheneOS as being a new
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project. They've built a business based on taking credit for research and
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development not done by them. Substantial damage has been done to GrapheneOS
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through an organized campaign of misinformation and harassment.</p>
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