DanielMicay

Stealing over $100k of donations from the project in violation of our agreements and what was promised to donors is one of the particularly egregious actions. He has abused his the position as director and has a total disregard for his obligations to me as a 50% shareholder too.

I'm still co-owner of the company with 50% of the voting shares. It doesn't belong to James Donaldson. The lawsuit we're filing ourselves is focused on fraudulent claims by the company about the authorship and ownership of the code. We may need to file other lawsuits beyond that.

The CEO of Copperhead, James Donaldson, is a narcissistic psychopath. He pretended to be my friend while manipulating and gaslighting me for years. He completely betrayed me and went back on all our agreements. He has tried to retroactively rewrite history, but it won't work.

Meanwhile, while they're spreading misinformation, threatening open source developers and filing a baseless lawsuit they claim that we're "bullies" for defending ourselves and talking about what really happened and is happening. That's some seriously screwed up projection...

They even try to claim ownership over my open source work done before the company existed and after they stopped sponsoring the project. It's simply ridiculous. They sell an very expensive product that's just a poor imitation ripping off the real thing. It's incredibly pathetic.

CopperheadOS at the time that Copperhead split from the project was almost entirely created by me and all my work was attributed to me as the author and owner. This was always agreed upon. Nothing was assigned to Copperhead. Nothing in the code was ever attributed to the company.

Copperhead filed a baseless lawsuit against us based on their false claims. We've filed counterclaims against them and we're filing our own lawsuit against them based on their fraud. You can read our initial legal response here: https://grapheneos.org/legal/Micay_%20Copperhead_%20Statement%20of%20Defendant%20and%20Counterclaim.pdf … There will be a lot more.

CopperheadOS is a closed source with tracking for license enforcement. It masquerades as hardened and they take credit for the work of the developers they're trying to wipe out. They take our work while trying to destroy our project with baseless lawsuits and misinformation.

It's quite sad that a company can get away with fraudulently taking credit for the work of others and earn substantial revenue from selling it as a branded closed source product. They don't have an understanding of what they've taken and are shipping a broken, insecure product.

It has always been the case that developers working on the project own their own code. There has never been any kind of copyright assignment, and it has been explicitly communicated throughout the years that this is the case. It was no different when Copperhead was sponsoring it.