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Palm Hit WIth Lawsuit Over Pre Document Handling |
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Monday, 07 December 2009 19:27 |
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Palm is already facing increased competition from Android devices. It has also been struggling to get developers to write applications for its nascent webOS, and struggling to remain relevant among smartphone makers. It received still more bad news last Thursday: a lawsuit.
Artifex Software is suing Palm over the PDF (Portable Document Format) viewer found in Palm's Pre smartphone, it said on Thursday. The company alleges in its lawsuit that Palm has copied and integrated Artifex's PDF rendering engine, called muPDF, without licensing the engine properly.
If muPDF is part of an application, than that application, according to Artifex, must be licensed in one of two ways. Either the entire application must be licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), or if the software is not licensed under GPL, then Palm must have a commercial license in order to use muPDF.
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