[shireboy]

Again, I get the argument, just think it’s overstated. First, when referring to stack overflow and blogs, generally, that’s intentionally shared with the express purpose of people copying it- hopefully while learning from it at the same time. Second, again with some code bits it’s not really plagiarism any more than all iambic pentameter is plagiarizing Shakespeare.

Devs often look at code to see basic syntax, understand algorithms, etc. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. One should draw a line somewhere, but to say I need to attribute […somevar] every time I use it because I happened to see it one time on a blog post is silly.

A thought experiment may help: Scrape Github for all unique strings longer than X and store in a file with a timestamp and owner. How large does X have to be before attribution is required? If not length, then how do you determine whether attribution is required?