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Palm Sued Over Palm Pre GPL Violation

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. GNU Icon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What the hell is that thing supposed to be? I've seen it for years and want to know, since I can't find info on it anywhere and no-one seems to know.

    Why the hell does it look like a dick with two red balls being stroked by a hand with a blue napkin?

  2. Fix the Slashdot moderation system by QuantumG · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    +5 Insightful? FFS, can we please get something better than "randomly assign mod points to people who never contribute to the site" please? please?

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