GrapheneOSGrapheneOS started in 2014 and was originally named CopperheadOS. In late 2015, the Copperhead company was founded which was meant to support the project. Copperhead didn't create CopperheadOS and didn't own or control it. Copperhead made a failed takeover attempt on it in 2018.
GrapheneOS still has the original CopperheadOS repositories on GitHub. Copperhead seized a bunch of the project's infrastructure and accounts. They created a closed source fork of GrapheneOS called CopperheadOS after the split which was not the same CopperheadOS as the original.
Copperhead remained entirely dependent on GrapheneOS and had to keep forking our code for each major Android update. Despite depending on GrapheneOS, they waged a war against it trying to destroy the project and attempting to ruin the lives of our team, especially our founder.
d@nny disc@ mc²@GrapheneOS i cannot express my gratitude for you and your team's work and it is the one single thing that reminds me safety is something we can build together. within adversarial channels they remain powerless against the discrete log. that hardware resources can be made more or less deterministic to any necessary tolerance if you don't ever compromise and you research and test and measure in a way that means something new