I hope I have not mischaracterised your situation in anything I have said here. I just want a secure FOSS phone, all this drama is mostly pointless.
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Not going to get a secure or FOSS phone from a company that's based around poorly copying open source code, making it into a closed source product and then using the revenue from selling it to cause harm to the open source projects where it originates through any means possible.
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I don't have any knowledge of the twitter issues better Graphene and CH, and their respective supporters.
My understanding is the split happened years ago at this point. Are you saying any further development from CH is the result of repackaging Graphene's code?
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Yes, they forked my repositories from GitHub (the original repositories are in the GrapheneOS repository now) and since then have continued taking our code without giving credit to us. They took hardened_malloc and many other things entire developed after the split.
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We still have the original repositories created for CopperheadOS Beta and later. That was before the company was founded too. I created the project on my own time substantially before the project was founded as an extension of my existing hardening work.
github.com/GrapheneOS/pla
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I started github.com/GrapheneOS/har after the split while figuring out how to put things back together for the OS. I waited until the release of the next major version of Android to make the next release under the temporary Android Hardening name, and then renamed to GrapheneOS.
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See github.com/yegortimoshenk for an archive of some of what happened as part of the takeover attempt. There are other archives of earlier code and information. James tried to get this repository wiped out with bogus DMCA claims and threats against .
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Unfortunately, over the years, they've had a lot of success with threatening people, manipulating support teams across various sites, etc. You can still find a lot of useful information via the Internet Archive etc. Many people who were around for all this and earlier too.
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The community around the project moved along with the actual project and are still part of the GrapheneOS community. The supporters that Copperhead has managed to find are nearly all people who were not part of the community or users of the OS. That's how they can be tricked now.
In yegortimoshenko.github.io/copperhead-tak and the rest, you'll see examples how at the time, James acknowledged I owned the open source project and never transferred ownership to Copperhead. His story has changed substantially over time and morphed into the false narratives he now has today.
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I'll admit I get very frustrated with people who fall for his false narratives and have zero interest in actually looking into all the available information and archives. I think that's pretty fair when they're helping someone this malicious who has spent years trying to harm us.
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