cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/44781501
GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone around the world without requiring personal information, identification or an account. GrapheneOS and our services will remain available internationally. If GrapheneOS devices can’t be sold in a region due to their regulations, so be it.
there is a company behind, so they can be identified… but, the foundation is in Canada, so probably California law doesn’t apply to them. unless they start to sell their products in California. not a lawyer so I don’t know for sure how those things work…
Good thing it’s free software
Ah, yeah, then they can’t be touched unless Canada passes something stupid, too. Which in the general global political climate… Isn’t impossible. But they may just geoblock California and other jurisdictions with similar laws so they can have plausible deniability. Of course, users could circumvent that entirely a dozen different ways, especially those technically inclined enough to install GrapheneOS, so I’m not sure how much it would really hurt them.