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Line 1: 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 ~~it's~~its term of usage. The high court made the following observations- Line 7: What it does not show is reproduction of the SAS source code by WPS going beyond the reproduction of its functionality. * [http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2010/1829.html#para148 WPL's manual writers] did not copy directly from the SAS Manuals in the sense of having one of the SAS Manuals open in front of them when writing the WPS Manual and intentionally either transcribing or paraphrasing the wording. A considerable degree of similarity in both content and language between the SAS Manual entries and the WPS Manual entries is to be expected given that they are describing identical functionality. The degree of resemblance in the language goes beyond that which is attributable to describing identical functionality. The full judgement can be accessed here at http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2010/1829.html

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