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| Palm OS Garnet Source Code Licensed to Palm by ACCESS  ACCESS has entered into a non-exclusive agreement with Palm, that gives Palm a perpetual license for the Palm OS Garnet source code. ACCESS and Palm have also agreed to an expansion of the two companies' existing patent license. Palm will pay ACCESS a total of $44 million. Under terms of the agreement, ACCESS has granted Palm specific rights to modify the code base of Palm OS Garnet for use in its devices such as the Palm Treo smartphone family and the company's other handheld computers.The agreement also grants Palm the right to use Palm OS Garnet in whole, or in part, in any product from Palm and together with any other system technologies. To ensure forward-compatibility of Palm OS Garnet applications, ACCESS and Palm have agreed to continue to measure compatibility against the compatibility test harness in use between the two companies. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |