In the late 1970s, Relational Software, Inc. (now Oracle Corporation) saw the potential of the concepts described by Codd, Chamberlin, and Boyce and developed t

In the late 1970s, Relational Software, Inc. (now Oracle Corporation) saw the potential of the concepts described by Codd, Chamberlin, and Boyce and developed their own SQL-based RDBMS with aspirations of selling it to the U.S. Navy, Central Intelligence Agency, and other U.S. government agencies. ... SQL became a standard of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in 1986, and of the International Organization for Standards (ISO) in 1987. So does time of infringement matter in copyright cases? Is the fact that it became an ISO standard later relevant? Unless Oracle was psychic, they could not have foreseen SQL becoming standardized, right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL