CopperheadOS is a closed source with tracking for license enforcement. It masquerades as hardened and they take credit for the work of the developers they're trying to wipe out. They take our work while trying to destroy our project with baseless lawsuits and misinformation.
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Copperhead filed a baseless lawsuit against us based on their false claims. We've filed counterclaims against them and we're filing our own lawsuit against them based on their fraud. You can read our initial legal response here:
grapheneos.org/legal/Micay_%2
There will be a lot more.
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CopperheadOS at the time that Copperhead split from the project was almost entirely created by me and all my work was attributed to me as the author and owner. This was always agreed upon. Nothing was assigned to Copperhead. Nothing in the code was ever attributed to the company.
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They even try to claim ownership over my open source work done before the company existed and after they stopped sponsoring the project. It's simply ridiculous. They sell an very expensive product that's just a poor imitation ripping off the real thing. It's incredibly pathetic.
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Meanwhile, while they're spreading misinformation, threatening open source developers and filing a baseless lawsuit they claim that we're "bullies" for defending ourselves and talking about what really happened and is happening. That's some seriously screwed up projection...
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The CEO of Copperhead, James Donaldson, is a narcissistic psychopath. He pretended to be my friend while manipulating and gaslighting me for years. He completely betrayed me and went back on all our agreements. He has tried to retroactively rewrite history, but it won't work.
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We have records proving these falsehoods along with witnesses who experienced these things publicly and internally. If you want to help us, get in touch with me or help cover the expensive legal fees (grapheneos.org/donate). Legal fees for September alone were just under $5000.
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I'm still co-owner of the company with 50% of the voting shares. It doesn't belong to James Donaldson. The lawsuit we're filing ourselves is focused on fraudulent claims by the company about the authorship and ownership of the code. We may need to file other lawsuits beyond that.
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Stealing over $100k of donations from the project in violation of our agreements and what was promised to donors is one of the particularly egregious actions.
He has abused his the position as director and has a total disregard for his obligations to me as a 50% shareholder too.
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He could start by not personally targeting me and presenting information on GrapheneOS in an incredibly biased way. He misrepresents it as my personal pet project despite it having more developers and testing than CalyxOS.
Similarly, he only talks about the performance cost of hardening while not mentioning any of the privacy of security benefits associated with it. Talks about it as if we don't have documentation laying out privacy and security benefits along with the performance and memory costs.
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The best way to help would be not making things worse and finding a way to address the damage that has already been caused. It plays into the attacks on GrapheneOS by Copperhead and they are fully aware of it and taking advantage of it.
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