GrapheneOSThere are several dozen companies selling phones with GrapheneOS or forks of it. Many of these companies falsely claim to be partnered with us or working with us which isn't true. Most of these companies don't contribute back to GrapheneOS and try to get free support from us.
Cleveland@grapheneos Isn't there a limit to the legality of Open Source if someone takes the free work and then profits off of it? It's supposed to be free and then someone charges for it! Ah heck no! (Mine is Pixel5a5g / GrapheneOS)
@mawil1013 The term open source usually implies permitting any kind of usage for any reason including commercial usage. Most people in the open source community expect the term source available to be used instead if commercial usage isn't permitted, even though source available often means no one is allowed to use it beyond looking at it. We plan on sticking to open source licenses for various reasons including not wanting to alienate most of the open source community.
inference@grapheneos @mawil1013 Huge thank you to GrapheneOS for using permissive licensing which doesn't impose restrictions on what code is allowed to be used in people's forks, including proprietary firmware and such.
One obstacle I often face with GPL-licensed software is the inability to legally include proprietary firmware and other code etc, leading to hacky and annoying workarounds to install it.
One obstacle I often face with GPL-licensed software is the inability to legally include proprietary firmware and other code etc, leading to hacky and annoying workarounds to install it.
Emon (moved to masto.top)@grapheneos sad to read those lines. I love your work and your philosophy.