A bunch of companies and individuals have sold devices with GrapheneOS or a fork of it. Many companies making forks of GrapheneOS haven't complied with our open source licenses and our separate rules for usage of our trademarks which we've been actively addressing for years.

From 2018 through around 2021, Abdoul Rasnab sold devices with his own proprietary fork of GrapheneOS. That's 4 years after the project was started. He had no involvement in creating or founding GrapheneOS. He also didn't write absolutely any of the GrapheneOS project's code.

Abdoul Rasnab said he wanted to support us and committed to providing a portion of the sales of devices. We had no formal business deal. He didn't need a commercial license to use GrapheneOS. We thought it was someone being generous, although he didn't end up sending most of it.

Abdoul Rasnab repeatedly misrepresented himself as a creator or founder of GrapheneOS on LinkedIn and elsewhere. He repeatedly agreed to stop but never followed through. Later, we found out he built his whole business around misrepresenting himself as having created GrapheneOS.

@GrapheneOS I don’t know how this works, but is it possible for you to remove his Graphene OS “Experience” on LinkedIn?

@TuxOnBike How? LinkedIn allows people to claim anything they want.

@GrapheneOS Maybe LinkedIn removes the false entry if reported:
https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1338436/ or via the support form: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/solve

@TuxOnBike We've tried and they haven't done anything.