[Lazarus] Embarcadero vs Lazarus/FPC (Oracle vs Google)

[tw]

2012/5/8 Žilvinas Ledas <zilvinas.ledas at dict.lt>:
> Hello all,
>
> relevant recent news is that EU court ruled that APIs and programming
> languages are not copyrightable:
> http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/05/02/229208/eu-court-rules-apis-programming-languages-not-copyrightable
>
> So at least in EU it is totally legal.

if so, and SAS code "functionality" can't be protected by copyright,
what about functionality of GPL'ed code (analogously R-project) ? it
also can't be protected (if source code is visible) ?

best regards
tw