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Google (and most of other big techs I guess?) also explicitly prohibit employees from use of stack overflow code snippets.
by summerlight 5y ago
Google (and most of other big techs I guess?) also explicitly prohibit employees from use of stack overflow code snippets.
- Noumenon72 5y agoI tried Googling this and couldn't find it. I also don't want to believe it because it seems like the world suddenly turned into an apocalyptic hellscape with no place for developers like me. Do you have a source?
- xen0 5y agoI work at Google. SO definitely comes up during copyright/IP training. The basic idea is 'reading SO answers to learn how to solve a problem is fine, copying/transcribing the code is not'. Google is quite paranoid re. copyright and licenses.
- jhugo 5y agoI don't have a source to link, but I've also been told this by someone who works at Google. Is copy-pasting stuff verbatim from SO really that much of a thing? I use SO plenty, but have never considered taking anything verbatim.
- summerlight 5y agoFirst, I work at Google and its onboard training explicitly mentions Stack Overflow as a forbidden example due to CC-BY-SA license (SA is the problematic part). The following link is the official reference. https://opensource.google/docs/thirdparty/licenses/#restricted https://opensource.google/docs/thirdparty/licenses/#restrict...