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CopperheadOS is a proprietary fork of my code in violation of the licensing that was used at the time. Not only that but they've invested substantial resources in causing harm to myself and the continuation of the original project they've ripped off and passed off as their work.
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Giving them money and support is directly funding and supporting attacks on open source privacy and security developers. By promoting it, you're pushing proprietary software and harming the open source project they ripped it off from and continue trying to harm however they can.
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So, for your information, you're violating the licensing of my software by using CopperheadOS, especially if you use it for anything commercial which a Bitcoin wallet largely seems to imply. GrapheneOS is open source but the legacy code they forked is non-commercial usage only.
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Copperhead does not have a license and does not own the code that they forked. They were never given any commercial license to use it without my permission/involvement. I never assigned any copyright to them. I never had any employment agreement or contract work with Copperhead.
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A far superior modern version of the project with years of additional research and engineering put into it. It's available as an entirely free, open source project with an active community collaborating to make it. Not sure why anyone wants a proprietary fork of my legacy work...
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"you're violating the licensing of my software"
Great first impression. Feeling super motivated to go try your project now.
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Why are you tracking people down.. This turns me off from
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No clue what you mean by "tracking people down". CopperheadOS is forked from a legacy revision of my work work in violation of the licensing. The licensing doesn't permit commercial usage, so both Copperhead and anyone using their proprietary fork commercially is violating that.
You said this to me already 😂 how did you find this tweet? You are tracking them down .
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It ended up in the timeline of this account because someone I follow retweeted it. I'm probably not going to be following them anymore but that depends on their actions. Not sure how responding to a PUBLIC POST on Twitter that's being spread around is tracking anyone down...
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The modern version of the project is available under permissive open source licensing. The legacy revision forked by Copperhead used non-commercial usage licensing. Their proprietary fork is in violation of that licensing and people using it commercially are violating it too.
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The project that isn't Copperhead is CopperheadOS and is not GrapheneOS and anyone using GrapheneOS is in violation. Did I get that right?
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