[HN Gopher] How often people copy and paste from Stack Overflow
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       How often people copy and paste from Stack Overflow
        
       Author : JadoJodo
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2021-12-30 16:17 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | JadoJodo wrote:
       | I initially thought this would utilize some sort of
       | GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket/etc-wide scan to compare code in public
       | repos against that of those provided in answers on StackOverflow.
       | I would still be curious to see that, but this is obviously more
       | direct.
        
       | yesenadam wrote:
       | What am I missing? The picture "Copy Events by Post Score"[0]
       | plots, for posts with various point scores, how many times they
       | were copied. But for 0 - 100 on the x-axis, this is a virtually
       | clean, solid curve, as if all posts with 45 points, say, were
       | copied exactly 13 times, all posts with 46 points, 14 times etc.
       | I don't get why the data points are all on a single curve.
       | 
       | [0]
       | https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/hkdnDDP4Vx0XOMt_VWX09qKURy...
        
       | redman25 wrote:
       | This makes me curious, how are stackoverflow questions licensed?
       | Is there any harm in copy/pasting?
        
         | gs17 wrote:
         | It depends on when it was posted:
         | ttps://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing
         | 
         | >Content contributed before 2011-04-08 (UTC) is distributed
         | under the terms of CC BY-SA 2.5.
         | 
         | >Content contributed from 2011-04-08 up to but not including
         | 2018-05-02 (UTC) is distributed under the terms of CC BY-SA
         | 3.0.
         | 
         | >Content contributed on or after 2018-05-02 (UTC) is
         | distributed under the terms of CC BY-SA 4.0.
        
           | hobs wrote:
           | And if you want an easy way to download it
           | https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
        
       | account-5 wrote:
       | >... we set up a system to react every time someone typed
       | Command+C ...
       | 
       | So only people using Mac's then.
        
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