Ultimate Web Site Drop Down Menu Forum

Ultimate Web Site Drop Down Menu Forum (http://www.udm4.com/forum/index.php)
-   General Web Trends and News (http://www.udm4.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=10)
-   -   EU Court Rules APIs, Programming Languages Not Copyrightable (http://www.udm4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8307)

05-03-2012 03:12 AM

EU Court Rules APIs, Programming Languages Not Copyrightable
 
</img>
</img>
itwbennett writes "The European Court of Justice ruled on Wednesday that the functionality of a computer program and the programming language it is written in cannot be protected by copyright. In its ruling on a a case brought by SAS Institute against World Programming Limited (WPL), the court said that 'the purchaser of a license for a program is entitled, as a rule, to observe, study or test its functioning so as to determine the ideas and principles which underlie that program.'"

Read more of this story at Slashdot.


More...


All times are GMT. The time now is 03:03 PM.

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.0.1
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.