Comment by hot_gril
2 months ago
You said that SQL schemas aren't software, and that's what this lawsuit was about. If they explicitly say that Excel docs (even w/ formulas) aren't software, I think they're wrong, but that doesn't matter because Excel docs aren't SQL schema.
Now if you want to go by Illinois definitions, SQL schemas are file layouts, that's why the plaintiff lost.
Again: the post explains why the court determined schemas to be file layouts, and none of it involves any of the logic you've supplied here. Even Chicago didn't try to claim that a schema was a "software".
They didn't need to. In the first appeal, it didn't matter because it didn't jeopardize security. In the second appeal, they said it's a file layout.
You also said SQL schemas are declarative, not imperative. Those are types of programming languages, so software.