Copperhead has continued escalating their malicious attacks on GrapheneOS. Copperhead breaking the terms of the sponsorship agreement, attempting to take over the project through coercion and then trying to fraudulently rewrite history was not the end.
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They've been contacting anyone supporting or partnering with the project to intimidate them with baseless legal threats or confuse them with misinformation. Their goal is harming open source privacy/security work. The're fraudulently claiming credit / ownership for our work.
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It's at the point where they are not only sending legal threats to people who contribute, but they're trying to get those people in trouble with their employer or university. They have even gone as far as contacting the sister of someone supporting the project. It's insane stuff.
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What the hell? Even if your work was derivative of theirs, isn't that how the GPL works?
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There's no code in GrapheneOS derived from anything owned by Copperhead so licensing doesn't play a factor. On the other hand, most of what they have is a fork of my legacy code and they're *actually* violating the licensing used for the legacy revision of the code they forked.
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GrapheneOS was created in 2014 and was formerly known as CopperheadOS. The code was permissively licensed and it was explicitly agreed upon that I would own and control my own work. That agreement never changed and I never assigned copyright to them.
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Copperhead Limited didn't even exist until mid 2015. I chose the licensing for my code and no one else had any input into that. Each change in licensing was entirely up to me, deciding on my own. They had to convince me to make changes, but it was ultimately up to me to decide.
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They're trying to completely rewrite history and are making outrageously fraudulent claims that are easily proven false. They just hope that they can muddy the waters and cause enough confusion and misunderstandings to continue damaging the project. Their goal is causing harm.