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                     <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>
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                 forbid using GrapheneOS as a replacement for the Android Open Source Project in locked
                 down devices.</p>
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+            <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>
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