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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Bionic is under BSD license IIRC it even allows some *extreme* circumstances e.g: ppl reuse the code w/o retaining the copyright-year statement. This legal accusation shouldn't work. Any opinions?
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There is no code in GrapheneOS derived from anything owned by Copperhead. Licensing isn't relevant. I own all of the code that I've written for the project since it was started in 2014. That includes code I wrote during the time that the project was sponsored by Copperhead.
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They're fraudulently claiming authorship and ownership over code that I wrote for the open source project. This project existed before Copperhead was founded and there was never a time that code I wrote became owned by Copperhead. There was never any copyright assignment.
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I never assigned any copyright to them, I never wrote code under a contract for them and I was never an employee. I own the code that I've written and I can do whatever I want with it. On the other hand, Copperhead has to respect the licenses for my code which they are not doing.
Not only that, but it was EXPLICITLY agreed upon on a regular basis that I owned the all of the code I was writing and owned / controlled the open source project. This was not something implicit, unstated or based only upon an early agreement. It was regularly confirmed.
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These are facts and are backed up by the record, which is publicly available. The structure of the project and the sponsorship by the company were openly discussed. They pulled the same nonsense with the donations they stole from the project and also refused to return to donors.
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