IANAL. Read the ruling. To me it seems to reaffirm the principle that no functional aspect of a system are under copyright. Sun/Oracle's consternation about it'

IANAL. Read the ruling. To me it seems to reaffirm the principle that no functional aspect of a system are under copyright. Sun/Oracle's consternation about it's lack of control over Java due to "fragmentation" was even interpreted to support the idea that the aspects of Java that Google copied to develop a compatible system were, in fact, functional. "Short labels" are out too. So AFAICT you can't copyright "if ... then", and you can't copyright "if" or "then" either. Also see the recent case of SAS (a computer language product) in the EU. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAS_Institute_lawsuit_with_World_Programming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAS_Institute_lawsuit_with_Wor...