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Discussion on: Embrace the Copy/Paste

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Stephen Senkomago Musoke

And to make sure that others learn from you too - ensure that in your usage you add a link and attribution to the original source of the code

I now do this as a personal way of driving attribution, even within closed source usage

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Mihail Malo

I find adding a comment like this is perfect so that I know where to go and "complain" if I find any edge cases, even after changing the code style/variable names to my convention or even refactoring altogether (which makes search useless).