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             that they are actively trying to sabotage it through any means necessary while
             continuing to profit from our work.</p>
 
+            <p>This section was included here in response to the ongoing attacks on the project by
+            the former sponsor. It will be substantially expanded in the near future.</p>
+
+            <h2 id="copyright-and-licensing">
+                <a href="#copyright-and-licensing">Copyright and licensing</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 tiny portion of the
-            code written by people under contract with the former sponsor was removed from the
-            project due to the code becoming obsolete, long before it was known as GrapheneOS. The
-            code that remains from the previous era is entirely owned by Daniel Micay, was never
-            written under any contracts or employment agreements, was never assigned to any
+            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 to Android Oreo 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 and the copyright ownership is largely
-            irrelevant due to it being an open source project. The upstream licensing is inherited
-            for modifications to those projects and MIT licensing is used for our own standalone
-            projects. There was an era from September 2016 until the project split from the former
-            sponsor in mid 2018 where non-commercial usage licensing was used for revisions to the
-            existing open source code. This was an attempt to prop up the project's sponsor which
-            was not succeeding in building a business. The licensing was not the real problem and
-            GrapheneOS has gone back to the original open source licensing predating the misguided
-            sponsorship agreement. Code from that era not owned by Daniel Micay was omitted from
-            the project when it was ported to Android Oreo and rebranded as the AndroidHardening
-            project and then GrapheneOS. There is no code in GrapheneOS tainted by non-commercial
-            usage licensing. It was largely rewritten from scratch for Oreo and later and all the
-            portions based on earlier work are unquestionably owned by the developers who are free
-            to choose new licenses for the code.</p>
+            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>This section was included here in response to the ongoing attacks on the project by
-            the former sponsor. It will be substantially expanded in the near future.</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>
 
             <h2 id="roadmap">
                 <a href="#roadmap">Roadmap</a>