> I sometimes read people's open source code on github and use the ideas from that to develop my own ideas. Yes, I too, and probably many people will do. > In

> I sometimes read people's open source code on github and use the ideas from that to develop my own ideas. Yes, I too, and probably many people will do. > In fact sometimes I copy and paste short passages and then rework them. This I usually don't unless I check the license first. (Everybody ought to be allowed, but sometimes the license might not be.)