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Expand Up @@ -38,15 +38,14 @@ <h1><a href="#history">History</a></h1>

<p>GrapheneOS was founded by Daniel Micay in late 2014. It started as a solo project
incorporating his previous open source privacy/security work. The project initially
created a port of OpenBSD malloc to Android's Bionic libc and a port of the PaX kernel
patches to the kernels for the supported devices. It quickly expanded to having a
large set of homegrown privacy and security improvements, particularly low-level
hardening work on the compiler toolchain and Bionic. Work began on landing code
upstream in AOSP and other upstream projects. A substantial portion of these early
changes were either successfully landed upstream or heavily influenced the upstream
changes which replaced them. The project was able to move very quickly in these days
because there was so much low hanging fruit to address and it wasn't yet trying to
produce a highly robust, production quality OS.</p>
ported the OpenBSD malloc to Android and ported the PaX kernel patches, for supported
devices. It quickly expanded to having a large set of homegrown privacy and security
improvements, particularly low-level hardening work on the compiler toolchain and
Bionic. Work began on landing code upstream in AOSP and other upstream projects. A
substantial portion of these early changes were either successfully landed upstream
or heavily influenced the upstream changes which replaced them. The project was able
to move very quickly in these days because there was so much low hanging fruit to
address and it wasn't yet trying to produce a highly robust, production quality OS.</p>

<p>In late 2015, a company was incorporated which became the primary sponsor of the
project. GrapheneOS was <a href="/history/copperheados">previously known as
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creation.</p>

<p>After splitting from the former sponsor, the project was rebranded to
AndroidHardening and then to GrapheneOS and it has continued down the original path of
being an independent open source project. It will never again be closely tied to any
particular sponsor or company.</p>
AndroidHardening in 2018 and then to GrapheneOS in 2019. GrapheneOS has continued down the
original path of being an independent open source project, and it will never again be
closely tied to any particular sponsor or company.</p>

<p>GrapheneOS now has multiple full-time and part-time developers supported by
donations and multiple companies collaborating with the project.</p>
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