Re: Patent Troll Versus GNOME Foundation

Peter Reutemann <[email protected]> Tue, 29 Oct 2019 10:51:13 +1300

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> An entity named Rothschild Patent Imaging (RPI) is claiming that the
> GNOME Shotwell app is infringing a patent it holds
> <https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/22/gnome_linux_lausuit/>. The
> GNOME Foundation is not settling, instead it is fighting back to try to
> get the patent invalidated and RPI to pay its legal fees.

The GNOME foundation set up a fund for this legal battle:
https://secure.givelively.org/donate/gnome-foundation-inc/gnome-patent-troll-defense-fund

This link was lifted from this GNOME foundation blog entry:
https://www.gnome.org/news/2019/10/gnome-files-defense-against-patent-troll/

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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