From baffdc4ec8fb6a8aed495ea93692dcb73955dcd4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Micay
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 23:53:55 -0500
Subject: move related topics together in the FAQ
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@@ -113,12 +113,12 @@
What features does GrapheneOS implement?
Does GrapheneOS provide Factory Reset Protection?
Why aren't my favorite apps bundled with GrapheneOS?
- Who owns the GrapheneOS code and how is it licensed?
- What about the GrapheneOS name and logo?
What is the roadmap for GrapheneOS?
- Will GrapheneOS create a company?
How do I install GrapheneOS?
How do I build GrapheneOS?
+ Will GrapheneOS create a company?
+ Who owns the GrapheneOS code and how is it licensed?
+ What about the GrapheneOS name and logo?
@@ -1037,55 +1037,6 @@
down devices.
-
-
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
-
-
-
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
-
@@ -1121,18 +1072,6 @@
term, the project will need to move into the hardware space.
-
-
-
- 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.
-
-
@@ -1150,6 +1089,67 @@
If you have trouble with the build process, ask for help from the
#grapheneos Matrix / IRC channel.
+
+
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+
+
+ 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.
+
+ 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.
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+
+
+ 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.
+
+ 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.
+
+ 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.
+