Legally I have absolutely no clue. That's why they're in the court room for. At the end of the day it's up to some random people's opinion.
Ethically, I'm pretty sure it does by far more harm than good. Because of the whole standing in the shoulder of giants, and common as air arguments. That most here are very aware of. The only counter point would be the economic incentive that copyright gives oracle. But that's meaningless because we have mountains of evidence that people will invent great languages anyway.
Legally I have absolutely no clue. That's why they're in the court room for. At the end of the day it's up to some random people's opinion.
Ethically, I'm pretty sure it does by far more harm than good. Because of the whole standing in the shoulder of giants, and common as air arguments. That most here are very aware of. The only counter point would be the economic incentive that copyright gives oracle. But that's meaningless because we have mountains of evidence that people will invent great languages anyway.