Controversy
There has been controversy lately on difference, if any, on SAS as a language and SAS as a system. While some people believe that SAS exists as a language and cannot be copyrighted by the SAS Institute only. This is because of third party compilers like the World Programming System, GNU DAP (software), and Carolina from Dulles Open and SAS Institute's efforts to be the sole distributor of the SAS language related products.In addition the SAS Institute created a wiki with the condition that any content there is irrevocably and permanently licensed to the SAS Institute. The SAS Institute also hosts and funds some part of the annual SAS User Group Conference with the same condition that all content is irrevocably and permanently licensed to the SAS Institute.
In a recent judgement by High Court in UK, SAS Language was established as a programming language.
In November 2011 Advocate General Bot of the European Union declared that in his opinion that Computer Languages including the language of SAS were not able to be protected by copyright law. See http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=CJE/11/129&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
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