Toxic behaviour as in threatening contributors to the GrapheneOS project by copy striking their own contributions? See renlord.com/posts/2020-03-
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Part of my roles and responsibilities as the CEO is protection of Copperhead IP. This site asserts a bunch of false, non-lawyer legal claims about Daniel's code which makes it a bad example.
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Imagine you left Epic Games. Does that mean you get to fork Fortnite and make a competitor even if you wrote the code? No. If you did so, they would sue you into oblivion. This is how the world works.
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Of course they would. Rightly so, but I don’t see how this applies in CopperheadOS’s case. I can’t remember what the licence was, but I do remember CopperheadOS used to have a lot more code opened up on GitHub, has this all been taken down? Why?
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The original repositories were moved to github.com/AndroidHardeni and then github.com/GrapheneOS during the renaming of the project. Copperhead cloned all of the repositories and uploaded their forks to a new organization. GrapheneOS is the original project. You can verify this.
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They initially uploaded empty repositories for each repository that was moved elsewhere to break the redirects. Many of those empty repositories are still there. Then they uploaded their fork of my code. I own all the code I wrote, and they're bound to the same terms as others.
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The commits were attributed to me as the author and owner using my personal email address from the beginning. I used the company email for company business, which did not include my open source development work. Look at github.com/GrapheneOS/pla, etc. and compare to their forks.
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These are the original repositories for the AOSP-based CopperheadOS which was renamed to Android Hardening and then GrapheneOS. They aren't the repositories from the very beginning, since I initially based it on CyanogenMod before I knew better. These still predate Copperhead.
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Here's a nice example: github.com/CopperheadOS-T. You can see that this person forked my repositories in early 2016. If you look at the history, you can see all of the commits are attributed to me via my personal email address. Nothing was ever attributed to Copperhead Limited.
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You can also see that at that time, it was a permissively licensed open source project. You can see that these repositories refer to GrapheneOS as the project they were forked from, since it is the original project. These are the facts. Can look at other examples in the network.
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You can also see that when I changed the license, the code was still attributed to me. It was NEVER attributed to Copperhead Limited and there was never a copyright notice mentioning them. I never assigned copyright to them, either implicitly or explicitly. That's just nonsense.