“Code copying is rife. More than 75% of software developers will
reuse blocks of code that were written elsewhere. But it does not
automatically follow that they are breaking the law: sometimes
copying is done with permission, sometimes no permission is
required. The problem for those who employ developers is that they
need to understand where the legal boundaries lie.“A survey conducted by OUT-LAW.COM gauged responses from 3,970
coders. There was a general acknowledgement of the practice of
reusing and ‘borrowing’ code…”