Mobile operating system focused on privacy and security
CopperheadOS
Screenshot of CopperheadOS on a Nexus 5X
Developer
Copperhead
OS family
Unix-like
Working state
Current
Source model
Closed source
Latest release
13.09.28 / 28 September 2023; 7 months ago (2023-09-28)
Marketing target
Secure smartphones
Update method
Over-the-air (OTA) or sideloaded update packages
Package manager
APK with F-Droid bundled as a frontend
License
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Official website
copperhead.co/android
CopperheadOS is a mobile operating system for smartphones, based on the Android mobile platform. It adds privacy and security features to the official releases of the Android Open Source Project by Google. CopperheadOS is developed by Copperhead, a Canadian information security company. It is licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0, although its source code is not available for public download.
CopperheadOS supports smartphones in the Google Pixel product line; other devices are not targeted in order to preserve the resources of the development team. It has several security features not found in stock Android, such as a hardened version of the Linux kernel, and the ability to use separate passwords for unlocking the device and for encryption. Rather than use the Google Play Store found on most Android devices, CopperheadOS ships with the F-Droid store in order to reduce the risk of users installing malicious apps.
Development of CopperheadOS began in 2014, and the operating system had an initial alpha release in August 2015. This was followed by a beta release in February 2016, followed by several other releases targeting the Google Nexus and Pixel phones. The project was initially released under the GNU General Public License, with the project's source code publicly available on GitHub. In October 2016 the license was changed to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (BY-NC-SA), and as of June 2020 access to the source code was restricted to members of Copperhead's partner network.
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