[jraph]

I have hard time understanding your comment, and even your point actually.

Distribution is distribution: sharing the binary / source code of the thing.

Network protocols are not involved at all. Network connections between the software and the end-user are.

If a particular implementation of ANSI SQL was AGPL, and you modified and used this particular implementation and exposed it to the world, you would need to redistribute the code of this particular implementation.

But that does not change anything about ANSI SQL or about any other implementation of ANSI SQL.