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In Europe it's impossible to copyright a programming language "copyright is guided by the principle that copyright protection extends to expressions and not to
by tangue 15y ago
In Europe it's impossible to copyright a programming language "copyright is guided by the principle that copyright protection extends to expressions and not to ideas, procedures, methods of operation or mathematical concepts as such."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAS_Institute_lawsuit_with_World_Programming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAS_Institute_lawsuit_with_Worl...
This definition sounds reasonable to me.
- macmac 15y agoPlease note that the case was not appealed, certain questions were remanded to the European Court of Justice for it to decide sine the applicable rules are harmonized within the EU. Further the Advocate-General does not decide anything, he/she merely presents a recommendation to the Court. The actual decision is still pending and it is not publicly known when it will be available. In other words it is presently not known what the law is in the EU regarding the copyrightability of programming languages.