Patently Obvious: The Year The Lawyers Came To FOSS

The GNOME foundation was sued by Rothschild Patent Imaging on August 28th, 2019. The lawsuit alleged that the GNOME Shotwell photo manager was infringing on Rothschild patents. The GNOME foundation eventually settled with the Rothschilds in March 2020. Neil McGovern, Executive Director of the GNOME foundation, went through the entire process in a 25 minute presentation at the Seattle GNU/Linux conference this weekend.

written by 윤채경 (Yoon Chae-kyung)  2020-11-14 - last edited 2020-11-14. © CC BY

Video Copyright 2020 Seattle Gnu Linux Conference 2020. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.

The GNOME Foundation settled with Rothschild Patent Imaging in a way that prevents them from further lawsuits against all FOSS software. The GNOME foundation sees it as a huge success even though they did settle due to the terms and conditions they made Rothschild Patent Imaging agree to.

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