I'm fairly certain that I've heard Mike discuss why you can't patent math...or science...or facts...multiple times on here.
As SQL is a methodology for doing set-theory (mathematics), you'd basically be copyrighting facts.
Just because a company *says* (or *thinks*) it has a copyright on something doesn't make it so. That sounds like typical IT boilerplate, left for the sole purpose of intimidation.
To quote an un-remembered CS Professor: Plagiarism is for English Class.
The point being that the "art" of Programming is being able to see how all the bits fit together and interoperate, not the exact code. Anyone can C-C-P their way through code, but a real Programmer knows the how's and why's.
Can't copyright facts...or math?
I'm fairly certain that I've heard Mike discuss why you can't patent math...or science...or facts...multiple times on here.
As SQL is a methodology for doing set-theory (mathematics), you'd basically be copyrighting facts.
Just because a company *says* (or *thinks*) it has a copyright on something doesn't make it so. That sounds like typical IT boilerplate, left for the sole purpose of intimidation.
To quote an un-remembered CS Professor: Plagiarism is for English Class.
The point being that the "art" of Programming is being able to see how all the bits fit together and interoperate, not the exact code. Anyone can C-C-P their way through code, but a real Programmer knows the how's and why's.