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Shotwell (software)
Free software image organizer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shotwell is an image organizer designed to provide personal photo management for the GNOME desktop environment. In 2010, it replaced F-Spot as the standard image tool for several GNOME-based Linux distributions, including Fedora in version 13[5] and Ubuntu in its 10.10 Maverick Meerkat release.[6]
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Developer(s) | Yorba Foundation Elementary[1] Jens Georg[2] |
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Initial release | June 26, 2009; 15 years ago (2009-06-26) |
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Written in | Vala (GTK+) |
Operating system | Linux |
Platform | GNOME |
Available in | Multilingual[which?] |
Type | Image organizer |
License | LGPL-2.1-or-later |
Website | wiki![]() |
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In 2019, Shotwell was the target of a predatory lawsuit by Rothschild Patent Imaging against the GNOME Foundation claiming a patent infringement related to the use of WiFi to transfer photographic images. The case was resolved through agreement in 2020 and the patent itself invalidated in 2022 following a legal challenge from the open source development community.[7]: 251–252 [8]