please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . september 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message the topic of this article may not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources world programming news newspapers books scholar jstor free images september 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message world programming type private limited company industry software founded 2000 headquarters uk products wps website www.worldprogramming.com world programming is a private limited company headquartered in the uk . they develop and distribute software products concerned with numerical analysis business intelligence and data distribution . the company s main software products is the world programming system wps . 1 the software was the subject of a lawsuit by sas institute . the eu court of justice ruled in favor of world programming stating that the copyright protection does not extend to the software functionality the programming language used and the format of the data files used by the program . it stated that there is no copyright infringement when a company which does not have access to the source code of a program studies observes and tests that program to create another program with the same functionality . 2 see also edit wps references edit world programming ltd 2 june 2016 . www.worldprogramming.com about us company . retrieved 2 june 2016 . aoife white 2012 05 02 . copyright can t block software reverse engineering court . bloomberg . retrieved 2012 05 02 . external links edit world programming web site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title world programming & oldid 723302672 categories software companies of the united kingdomhidden categories articles needing additional references from september 2011all articles needing additional referencesarticles with topics of unclear notability from september 2011all articles with topics of unclear notability navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages espa ol edit links this page was last modified on 2 june 2016 at 07 25 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view