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Robert, Like I said…I'm only repeating what was said in the news reports, I didn't see or read the opinion itself. The following was reported: 1. Ashton-Tate's lawsuit against Fox and others was thrown out. 2. Ashton-Tate's copyrights on dBase were voided. 3. If the decision holds, people may legally copy dBase since it's no longer a copyrighted program. 4. Ashton-Tate is being sued because they licensed a product they were not entitled to license. Nowhere in the reports that I read was there any mention of the copyrights being thrown out limited to the language itself…all the stories I read (several of them) agreed, they were from several sources. Now, I certainly agree those reports are far from legal opinions, but it is strange none of the ones I read mentioned anything about limiting the voided copyrights to the language itself. I'm not saying you're wrong…but could you point me to a source that specifies that the only thing voided was the language itself? Don