Regular reminder that I had no license, copyright or employment agreement with Copperhead. The open source projects are mine and always have been. James Donaldson () is falsely claiming Copperhead owns the sources to the projects I started before the company existed...
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Their bogus justification for stealing my work is claiming that I was given shares in exchange for ownership of my code. It's false. There's a formal shareholder's agreement with no mention of any code. I purchased my shares by investing capital in the company just like James.
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The reality is that has no commercial license to use my code. The companies licensing it from them like @ncryptcellular are not receiving a valid license and are also in violation. Contractors for Copperhead are similarly *personally* violating the licensing.
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They've also stolen all of the Bitcoin donations that were made to my projects. The company explicitly didn't claim them as revenue because they were donations to the open source project, i.e. myself since projects are not legal entities. That's theft, not a disagreement/dispute.
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Take note of responding to bringing this up by blocking and making a subtweet falsely claiming it isn't true. They have no justification for their actions.
They keep lying about what happened, who developed the projects, how it was structured, etc. but it won't last.
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I'm continuing my privacy and security work (without compensation for now) while they line their pockets with rent seeking on my old code: github.com/AndroidHardeni.
They can barely even do basic maintenance or a port to 9.x, let alone making compelling new projects and features.
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Android 9.0 has substantial privacy and security improvements from 8.1. It also isn't possible to have full security updates for Pixels without targeting 9.0. That means means porting / rewriting old features and implementing new features that are now essential with the new base.
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They don't care one bit about privacy and security, or even making good products, just enriching themselves. That was the root of my conflict with James. He could have stepped down and kept his shares but instead he decided the solution was pushing me out and imploding it all.