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> We have a list of formal sponsors at https://grapheneos.org/sponsors which are 4 server companies sponsoring dedicated servers, a GeoIP database company giving us sponsored access to the downloadable database and a VPN company sponsoring 2 DataPacket servers. We could list Cape too but they started donating to us on their own.

Where are the details about any arrangements with the Motorola partnership?

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Motorola Mobility (Lenovo) isn't providing us with funding. They're improving the updates and security features for their devices, providing what we need to support them with proper updates and helping with the GrapheneOS port.

> Motorola Mobility (Lenovo) isn't providing us with funding.

If you made a strong public commitment to making sure everything in GrapheneOS was strong copyleft, would they still partner with you?

(FWIW, I think it's great what you're doing with the project, but I want to see the work made indelible, and I personally believe copyleft would help with that, otherwise some big vendor can have their proprietary fork and us users lose out.)

They want to sell more devices by improving security and having official support for GrapheneOS. The main work that's being done is official GrapheneOS support. They're also going to integrate improvements from it into their own OS but that's not the main focus. They may not want to do as much integration into their own OS if it was all GPL but it's a side benefit for them rather than the main purpose.

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