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authorDaniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>2020-12-30 23:53:55 -0500
committerDaniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>2020-12-30 23:53:55 -0500
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move related topics together in the FAQ
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@@ -113,12 +113,12 @@
<li><a href="#features">What features does GrapheneOS implement?</a></li>
<li><a href="#anti-theft">Does GrapheneOS provide Factory Reset Protection?</a></li>
<li><a href="#bundled-apps">Why aren't my favorite apps bundled with GrapheneOS?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#copyright-and-licensing">Who owns the GrapheneOS code and how is it licensed?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#trademark">What about the GrapheneOS name and logo?</a></li>
<li><a href="#roadmap">What is the roadmap for GrapheneOS?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#company">Will GrapheneOS create a company?</a></li>
<li><a href="#install">How do I install GrapheneOS?</a></li>
<li><a href="#build">How do I build GrapheneOS?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#company">Will GrapheneOS create a company?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#copyright-and-licensing">Who owns the GrapheneOS code and how is it licensed?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#trademark">What about the GrapheneOS name and logo?</a></li>
</ul>
</nav>
@@ -1037,55 +1037,6 @@
down devices.</p>
</article>
- <article id="copyright-and-licensing">
- <h2><a href="#copyright-and-licensing">Who owns the GrapheneOS code and how is it licensed?</a></h2>
-
- <p>The copyright for GrapheneOS code is entirely owned by the GrapheneOS developers
- 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.</p>
-
- <p>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.</p>
-
- <p>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 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.</p>
- </article>
-
- <article id="trademark">
- <h2><a href="#trademark">What about the GrapheneOS name and logo?</a></h2>
-
- <p>The GrapheneOS name and logo are trademarks of the GrapheneOS project. These
- marks are the process of being formally registered in Canada and the US. In the
- meantime, they're protected as unregistered trademarks.</p>
-
- <p>Derivatives of GrapheneOS that are being published/redistributed should replace
- the GrapheneOS branding with their own. It needs to be clear to users that it's a
- distinct OS based on GrapheneOS. Forks of GrapheneOS are not GrapheneOS itself and
- should not be presented that way.</p>
-
- <p>Only unofficial builds of the official GrapheneOS sources should be referred to
- as unofficial builds. An unofficial build is a build of the official GrapheneOS
- sources with the update server URL changed to another server. A project making
- modifications beyond that isn't simply an unofficial build and should be presented
- as a distinct OS based on GrapheneOS.</p>
- </article>
-
<article id="roadmap">
<h2><a href="#roadmap">What is the roadmap for GrapheneOS?</a></h2>
@@ -1121,18 +1072,6 @@
term, the project will need to move into the hardware space.</p>
</article>
- <article id="company">
- <h2><a href="#company">Will GrapheneOS create a company?</a></h2>
-
- <p>No, GrapheneOS will remain a non-profit open source project / organization. It
- will remain an independent organization not strongly associated with any specific
- company. We partner with a variety of companies and other organizations, and we're
- interested in more partnerships in the future. Keeping it as an non-profit avoids
- the conflicts of interest created by a profit-based model. It allows us to focus
- on improving privacy/security without struggling to build a viable business model
- that's not in conflict with the success of the open source project.</p>
- </article>
-
<article id="install">
<h2><a href="#install">How do I install GrapheneOS?</a></h2>
@@ -1150,6 +1089,67 @@
If you have trouble with the build process, ask for help from the
<a href="/contact#community">#grapheneos Matrix / IRC channel</a>.</p>
</article>
+
+ <article id="company">
+ <h2><a href="#company">Will GrapheneOS create a company?</a></h2>
+
+ <p>No, GrapheneOS will remain a non-profit open source project / organization. It
+ will remain an independent organization not strongly associated with any specific
+ company. We partner with a variety of companies and other organizations, and we're
+ interested in more partnerships in the future. Keeping it as an non-profit avoids
+ the conflicts of interest created by a profit-based model. It allows us to focus
+ on improving privacy/security without struggling to build a viable business model
+ that's not in conflict with the success of the open source project.</p>
+ </article>
+
+ <article id="copyright-and-licensing">
+ <h2><a href="#copyright-and-licensing">Who owns the GrapheneOS code and how is it licensed?</a></h2>
+
+ <p>The copyright for GrapheneOS code is entirely owned by the GrapheneOS developers
+ 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.</p>
+
+ <p>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.</p>
+
+ <p>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 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.</p>
+ </article>
+
+ <article id="trademark">
+ <h2><a href="#trademark">What about the GrapheneOS name and logo?</a></h2>
+
+ <p>The GrapheneOS name and logo are trademarks of the GrapheneOS project. These
+ marks are the process of being formally registered in Canada and the US. In the
+ meantime, they're protected as unregistered trademarks.</p>
+
+ <p>Derivatives of GrapheneOS that are being published/redistributed should replace
+ the GrapheneOS branding with their own. It needs to be clear to users that it's a
+ distinct OS based on GrapheneOS. Forks of GrapheneOS are not GrapheneOS itself and
+ should not be presented that way.</p>
+
+ <p>Only unofficial builds of the official GrapheneOS sources should be referred to
+ as unofficial builds. An unofficial build is a build of the official GrapheneOS
+ sources with the update server URL changed to another server. A project making
+ modifications beyond that isn't simply an unofficial build and should be presented
+ as a distinct OS based on GrapheneOS.</p>
+ </article>
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