Hancom
South Korean software company
Hancom Inc. (KOSDAQ: 030520) is an office suite software developer in South Korea. Established in 1990, the company created Hangul, a native word processing program for the Korean language. The name comes from Korea's native writing system, hangul.
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. Ghostscript is dual licensed under both the Affero GPL License, or a commercial license. Under the Affero GPL terms, Hancom would be required to open source their code. Alternatively, they could have purchased a license.
On May 27, 2020, Hancom Group announced the unveiling of the latest version of Hancom Office.
01Hancom Office
Hancom's Office Suite remains the company's main product. The suite is available in English and Korean.
02List of products
Current products
- Hancom Office Suite
- Hangul - word processor
- HanWord - word processor compatible with Word
- HanCell - spreadsheet program
- HanShow - presentation program
- Hancom Office Hanword
- Hancom Office Hanword Viewer
- Hancom Office 2020 International Version
- Hancom Docs
- Hancom Docs Converter
- Hancom Sign
Discontinued products
Sources and credits
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- Hancom logo.svg by Hancom, Inc., CC0
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