Hancom

Hancom (KOSDAQ: 030520) is an office suite software developer in South Korea.

[1] Established in 1990, the company created Hangul, a native word processing program for the Korean language.

In May 2017 Hancom lost a lawsuit in US Federal Court for violating the GNU GPL license as a consequence of using the source code of PostScript and PDF interpreter Ghostscript.

Under the Affero GPL terms, Hancom would be required to open source their code.

[4] Hancom's Office Suite remains the company's main product.

Former logo
Former logo (~2016)