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<link rel="manifest" href="/manifest.webmanifest"/>
<link rel="license" href="/LICENSE.txt"/>
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<li><a href="/faq">FAQ</a></li>
<li><a href="/releases">Releases</a></li>
<li><a href="/source">Source</a></li>
+ <li><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>
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<section id="history">
<h2><a href="#history">History</a></h2>
- <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>GrapheneOS was founded as an open source project in late 2014. It was formerly
+ known as CopperheadOS. For more details, see the <a href="/history">history
+ page</a>.</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>
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