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GNOME gets big open-source patent win

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
May 26, 2020

GNOME, the popular Linux desktop, didn’t just avoid paying a patent troll, it won the right for any product under an Open Source Initiative license to use code covered by the company’s patents.
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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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