Keep in mind, Stack Overflow code is generally licensed as: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ For m

Keep in mind, Stack Overflow code is generally licensed as: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ For many snippets there is no license so they're assumed to be under full copyright. I was at a company that was required to send their code through Black Duck once, and they caught a 3-line function that was lifted from the Java runtime classes (because it couldn't be overridden). We had to issue a new release over this. Also, I'm surprised how positively copy-paste coding is received here. Looking at docs is one thing, but otherwise it's not very good to rely on snippets from the web. A lot of things you want to program are not found by googling. Can you imagine a journalist saying they don't write their own their own stories, they just copy-paste paragraphs from already published stories and add some sentences to connect them?