Palm Sued Over Palm Pre GPL Violation

Posted by timothy on Sunday December 6, 2009 @02:52PM from the license-quicksand dept.

zaxl writes "Palm is being sued by Artifex Software over the PDF viewer in Palm's Pre smartphone, which may violate the GNU GPL. Artifex alleges that Palm has copied Artifex's PDF rendering engine, called muPDF, and integrated it into the Palm Pre's PDF viewer application without the proper licensing conditions. The entire application must be licensed under the GPL if muPDF is part of the application. It seems more and more cell phones are shipping with open source code, but in a closed manner."

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Re:Well by myrdred · 2009-12-06 17:19 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Did you miss the word either in the statement you emphasized?
What I said was fact. Given the premise that I want the above functionality in my app, I either have license my app as GPL or re-implement the functionality as MIT/BSD. This is obvious from the restrictions the GPL places on the software. I don't see the point of dispute in this statement.