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GrapheneOS is open source. See opensource.org/osd for more information on what that means. Open source licensing permits anyone respecting requirements like attribution to use it: > No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups > No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

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Can expect a further statement from

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about it. To be clear, we aren't working with them or supporting them. People being legally allowed to use the software is different from us wanting them to use it. They're hardly the first problematic company using our software.

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The tweet got taken down too? Did you lawyer them?

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No. Haven't contacted them at all. Maybe they saw those 3 tweets and realized that they shouldn't be calling it a phone running

@GrapheneOS

if it's running their own OS based on it. It's not clear to us what they are actually doing so we didn't specifically talk about them.

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Our tweets explained GrapheneOS is open source and can be used by anyone following the rules in our copyright licenses and for our trademarks. It stressed the importance of following the rules. If it's a fork of GrapheneOS it should be presented that way. I don't know what it is.

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What would it take to fork and maintain a fork? I doubt

@getongab

HAS the $$$ to support it

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If they rebrand it and bundle apps, that's not a lot of work. If that's what they're doing, they should say it's based on GrapheneOS rather than implying they ship GrapheneOS itself. Trademark law is simple to respect: present it in an accurate way where users don't get misled.

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grapheneos.org/faq#trademark explains how to do that. Our expectations are pretty simple: individuals or companies selling phones should accurately portray what it is that they provide based on GrapheneOS. If they make their own OS based on it, they should have their own brand for it.

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If a company follows the copyright licenses, they can use the code. They should still be careful about how they're using our brand because trademark law is separate. An individual or company using GrapheneOS does not mean we support them. In some cases we'd rather they didn't.

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Not wanting someone to use it doesn't mean they can't legally use it if they properly follow the copyright licenses and don't violate the trademarks. GrapheneOS developers may think someone has screwed up views but it doesn't mean they can't use our software. It's open source.

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If a company sells phones to organized crime as part of their business model, they have bigger problems than copyright law. That applies to a few of them. Some violations of the licenses are so egregious that there are explicitly fraudulent claims about authorship/ownership.

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