SAS Institute lawsuit with World Programming: Difference between revisions

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The SAS Institute, creators of [[SAS System]] filed a [http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2010/1829.html lawsuit] against World Programming Limited, creators of [[World Programming System|World Programming System or WPS]]. The dispute was whether World Programming had infringed copyrights on SAS Institute Products, and Manuals and whether World Programming used SAS Learning Edition to reverse engineer SAS system in violation with its term of usage.

The high court of England and Wales made the following observations-

* SAS can be considered a [http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2010/1829.html#para56 general programming language], though it serves largely as a database [[SAS programming language|programming language]] and a language with a wide variety of specialized analytic and graphic procedures

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The full judgement can be accessed here at http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2010/1829.html

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