Introduction
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Our goal is to create a copylefted libre mobile operating system. One you can use, study, change and share; with all.

About UBports
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The project was founded by Marius Gripsgard in 2015 and in its infancy a place where developers could share ideas and educate each other in hopes of bringing the Ubuntu Touch platform to more mobile devices.

After Canonical suddenly announced `plans to terminate support for Ubuntu Touch <https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence/>`_ in April of 2017, UBports and its sister projects began work on the source code; maintaining and expanding its possibilities for the future. Today, UBports is a volunteer group, formalised as a charitable foundation. 

About the Documentation
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Changes to the documentation are made by the UBports community. It is written in reStructuredText and converted into this readable form by `Sphinx <https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/>`_, `recommonmark <http://recommonmark.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>`_, and `Read the Docs <https://readthedocs.io>`_. Start contributing by checking out the :doc:`Documentation contribution document </contribute/documentation>`.

All documents are licensed Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 (`CC-BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/>`_). Please give attribution to "The UBports Community".

Attribution
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This documentation was heavily modeled after the `Godot Engine's Documentation <https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/>`_, by Juan Linietsky, Ariel Manzur and the Godot community.