SAS Institute lawsuit with World Programming: Difference between revisions

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The SAS Institute, creators of [[SAS System]] filed a '''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 case is interesting because World Programming did not have access to the SAS Institute's source code, and so the court considered the merits of a copyright claim based on observing functionality only.

The European Committee for Interoperable Systems [http://www.ecis.eu/2011/12/ecis-symposium-1-december-2011-bibliotheque-solvay-video-audio-presentations-and-related-materials/] say that the case is important to the software indusry.

The European Committee for Interoperable Systems [http://www.ecis.eu/2011/12/ecis-symposium-1-december-2011-bibliotheque-solvay-video-audio-presentations-and-related-materials/] say that the case is important to the software indusry. Some observers say the case is as important as the Borland versus Lotus case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Dev._Corp._v._Borland_Int%27l,_Inc.

The [[High Court of England and Wales]] made the following observations and a copy can be obtained at