just randomly tagging some peeps that might have an opinion on this... @BecomingDataSci @o_guest @nickwan
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OK, so there's two different things going on here. 1. Copy-pasting SNIPPETS is usually fine because 2 lines of code or like how write a Python list comprehension for the thing at hand is not really "intellectual property". That's what snippet means usually.
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2. STEALING chunks of somebody's code, i.e., passing off lines and lines of code written by another person/team as something you wrote is intellectual theft. So yes, that is 100% plagiarism. If they attribute it correctly according to the license of the code, then it's not theft.
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I'm wondering where to draw the line between situation 1 and 2. At 5 lines of code? 10 lines?
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Literally 1 or 2. But also on a case by case basis, it really depends. Can you DM me the example(s)?
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It's more about the simplicity of the task at hand than the lines per se. Although of course these are related.
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for anything that's not in official documentation I try to cite where I got it, at least. Even in my own programs. That way other people can go back if there's a problem and get more context.
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IMHO: Even something in official docs (if long, more than 2 lines) should be cited back to the official docs if lifted verbatim.
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BTW when I say "should" they obviously aren't going to sue you if you don't cite them, but also you would be laughed out of town if you tried to imply you wrote that code (I have seen this sadly). Not that
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I agree! (I mean, I don't think anyone should publish anything without citations; no one's come up with an idea expressible in language in complete isolation.)
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I think some of the saddest stuff I have seen was a person trying to show how well they can code and they lifted an example from the docs (and didn't bother to make it work for their task/data) and claimed it proved how they can code. Painful!
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