It's part of their continued attempts to fraudulently claim ownership over my work and to misrepresent themselves as the ones who created it. I started the project in 2014 before the company was founded in late 2015. The project has never been owned or controlled by Copperhead.
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I created CopperheadOS before Copperhead existed. I never did that work for anyone but myself on my own time. It was formally agreed upon that I owned and controlled the open source project. Copperhead chose to ship the upstream releases of my project instead of making their own.
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renlord.com/posts/2020-03- is another example of their desperation.
They attempted to get a student contributing to open source software in trouble with university via fraudulent copyright claims.
They're regularly harassing GrapheneOS developers/contributions with these attacks.
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It's verifiable that none of the CopperheadOS code was attributed to the company.
After pushing me out, they filed a fraudulent copyright claim over my work listing me as the author but falsely claiming that I had assigned copyright to the company. It's completely without basis.
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Not only was there no copyright assignment to Copperhead but it was formally agreed upon from the beginning that I would own and control the open source project. I was only willing to work on it under that condition. It was regularly acknowledged that this was how it worked too.
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Copperhead had 3 co-founders: myself, James Donaldson and Dan McGrady. McGrady was there for the incorporation agreement but left before shares were divided.
This is not a case of there people two people with different accounts of what happened. There are witnesses and evidence.
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It is verifiable that GrapheneOS is the continuation of the original project and that the new CopperheadOS was created as a fork.
It's verifiable that it was published with attribution to me as author and owner. You can see they added bogus copyright headers when they forked it.
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This code for secondary stack randomization was published in 2015 under the Apache 2 license. It was attributed to me as the author and owner. None of my work was ever done under any contracts or as an employee with a salary or any employment agreement.
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They attempted to get a student contributing to open source software in trouble with university via fraudulent copyright claims.
They're regularly harassing GrapheneOS developers/contributions with these attacks.
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I have an experienced lawyer. I'm not looking for uninformed legal advice on Twitter. It's not helpful.
Copperhead is actively spreading slander about myself and GrapheneOS across a bunch of platforms. It doesn't make sense to stand by and allow it to happen without refuting it.
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My lawyer encouraged me to publish grapheneos.org/legal/Micay_%2 and I'm only repeating what's included in there and the updated version that's going to be published soon.
This is already on the public record for the court. I don't hurt myself in any way by repeating the truth here.