Copperhead is falsely claiming copyright of my code:
github.com/CopperheadOS
Everyone buying a device from them or licensing the code from them is in violation of my licenses.
I had no work contracts, employment agreement or copyright / licensing agreement with Copperhead.
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They've continued to build a business based on code they don't own and have no commercial license to use. Adding Git commits with false copyright headers doesn't change anything.
It's my code, written on my own time, with my hardware and using my personal email address.
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James Donaldson and Copperhead have also stolen the donations sent to support my projects via credit card and Bitcoin. The company never claimed any of the Bitcoin and PayPal donations based on the logic that it was being sent to me and yet now reverses that and steals the money.
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Similarly, the company generated a significant amount of profit from selling phones and yet it's unclear what exactly happened to most of the money earned before I was pushed out. I certainly didn't receive anything close to a fair cut of it. Money was mismanaged and embezzled.
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Companies like @ncryptcellular (ncryptcellular.com.au) and securephones.net have no valid commercial license for my code. Their products are being sold illegally in violation of the license. Copperhead doesn't own the code and isn't in a position to license it to them.
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CopperheadOS is mine as a whole. I was the sole developer working on the project for nearly all of it. I didn't have any licensing, copyright or employment agreement with Copperhead. I started it long before the company was incorporated and continued it on my own time afterwards.
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Obviously, the underlying base is the permissively licensed Android Open Source Project. There are portions that come from elsewhere too. However, I own the work adapting them into AOSP. There were small bits written by a part-time employee but I own my modifications to them.
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In the final few months before I was pushed out, there was a part-time employee spending a bit of time working on it now and then. They primarily focused on other projects, and there are only a couple commits from them which I spent time modifying on my own time too.