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By the way "code written in a company belongs to the company" is the usual kind of lie from James Donaldson. The code was largely written by me on my own time before the company was founded (check the timeline). It was agreed that I'd own and control the open source project too.
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The company was supposed to be earning money from making proprietary forks of the OS for companies, doing contract work for them and providing support. It was not ever supposed to monetize the open source project directly but the company totally failed at getting anything done.
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Worth noting that the project remained under permissive open source licensing for a long time and I eventually decided to try GPLv3 as a way to prop up the company's failing attempting to monetize it and make it sustainable. Later, I decided to use non-commercial licensing.
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The licensing decisions were entirely up to me since it was my code and the company / James Donaldson didn't have input into that. You can see from the legal threats / ultimatums that I published from them that they gradually started trying to rewrite history and build up lies.
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They were initially trying to convince me to turn over ownership and control of the project to the company, along with trying to get a formal license to continue using from me or ownership over the code. I didn't give in, so they moved to just pretending it happened differently.
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GrapheneOS does not use any code that written or owned by Copperhead. It mostly contains code written after Copperhead betrayed the project. The code from before then is from the open source project, nothing that was written by Copperhead or for Copperhead. All easy to confirm.
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Can confirm that what I say about the agreement on how the project would work and that I would control it and own the code is true, and can also confirm that my upstream contributions to AOSP were officially and legally done as an individual among other lies James comes up with.