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by dontscale 3693 days ago
Copying and pasting from SO is perfectly acceptable as long as you know what the code is doing.

When I paste code, I include a comment with the link back to SO. I see it as the standard way of declaring a precedent in programming, where upvotes signal strength.

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>Copying and pasting from SO is perfectly acceptable as long as you know what the code is doing.

If the code you're working on is CC-BY-SA 3.0 licensed, sure.