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authorDaniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>2021-03-27 15:53:54 -0400
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- <meta charset="utf-8"/>
- <title>History | GrapheneOS</title>
- <meta name="description" content="History of the GrapheneOS project."/>
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- <meta property="og:image:alt" content="GrapheneOS logo"/>
- <meta property="og:site_name" content="GrapheneOS"/>
- <meta property="og:url" content="https://grapheneos.org/history"/>
- <link rel="canonical" href="https://grapheneos.org/history"/>
- <link rel="icon" sizes="16x16 24x24 32x32 48x48 64x64" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon" href="/favicon.ico"/>
- <link rel="icon" sizes="any" type="image/svg+xml" href="/mask-icon.svg"/>
- <link rel="mask-icon" href="/mask-icon.svg" color="#1a1a1a"/>
- <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/apple-touch-icon.png"/>
- <link rel="stylesheet" href="/grapheneos.css"/>
- <link rel="manifest" href="/manifest.webmanifest"/>
- <link rel="license" href="/LICENSE.txt"/>
- </head>
- <body>
- <header>
- <nav id="site-menu">
- <ul>
- <li><a href="/">GrapheneOS</a></li>
- <li><a href="/features">Features</a></li>
- <li><a href="/install/">Install</a></li>
- <li><a href="/build">Build</a></li>
- <li><a href="/usage">Usage</a></li>
- <li><a href="/faq">FAQ</a></li>
- <li><a href="/releases">Releases</a></li>
- <li><a href="/source">Source</a></li>
- <li aria-current="page"><a href="/history">History</a></li>
- <li><a href="/articles/">Articles</a></li>
- <li><a href="/donate">Donate</a></li>
- <li><a href="/contact">Contact</a></li>
- </ul>
- </nav>
- </header>
- <main id="history">
- <h1><a href="#history">History</a></h1>
-
- <p>GrapheneOS was founded by Daniel Micay in late 2014. It started as a solo project
- 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. GrapheneOS was previously known as CopperheadOS while it was sponsored by
- this company. 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. This company failed to live up
- the promises and is no longer associated in any way with GrapheneOS. The company
- ended up holding back the open source project and taking far more from it than was
- provided to it.</p>
-
- <p>In 2018, the company was hijacked by the CEO who attempted to take over the project
- through coercion, but they were rebuked. They seized the infrastructure and stole the
- donations, but the project successfully moved on without them and has been fully
- revived. Since then, they've taken to fraudulently claiming ownership and authorship
- of our work, which has no basis in fact. They've tried to retroactively change the
- terms of their involvement and rewrite the history of the project. These claims are
- easily falsified through the public record and by people involved with the open source
- project and the former sponsor. This former sponsor has engaged in a campaign of
- misinformation and harassment of contributors to the project. Be aware that they are
- actively trying to sabotage GrapheneOS and are engaging in many forms of attacks
- against the project, the developers, contributors and supporters. Meanwhile, they
- continue profiting from our open source work which they falsely claim as their own
- creation.</p>
-
- <p>After splitting from the former sponsor, the project was rebranded to
- AndroidHardening and then to GrapheneOS and it has continued down the original path of
- being an independent open source project. It will never again be closely tied to any
- particular sponsor or company.</p>
-
- <p>GrapheneOS now has multiple full-time and part-time developers supported by
- donations and multiple companies collaborating with the project.</p>
-
- <section id="releases">
- <h2><a href="#releases">Releases</a></h2>
-
- <p>A history of releases for the current incarnation of GrapheneOS is available
- via the <a href="/releases#changelog">releases changelog</a>.</p>
-
- <p>An archive of changelogs for the earlier releases is available via the
- <a href="/history/legacy-changelog">legacy changelog page</a>.</p>
- </section>
- </main>
- <footer>
- <a href="/"><img src="/mask-icon.svg" width="512" height="512" alt=""/>GrapheneOS</a>
- <ul id="social">
- <li><a href="https://twitter.com/GrapheneOS">Twitter</a></li>
- <li><a href="https://github.com/GrapheneOS">GitHub</a></li>
- <li><a href="https://reddit.com/r/GrapheneOS">Reddit</a></li>
- <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/grapheneos/">LinkedIn</a></li>
- </ul>
- </footer>
- </body>
-</html>