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Just curious, do they have bans on "traditional" online sources like Google search results, Wikipedia, and Stack Overflow?

From my view, copying information from Google search results isn't that much different from copying the response from ChatGPT.

Notably Stack Overflow's license is Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike, which I believe very people actually realize when copying snippets from there.

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> Notably Stack Overflow's license is Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike, which I believe very people actually realize when copying snippets from there.

A lot of the snippets would not meet the standard for copyrightable code, though. At least that’s my understanding as non-lawyer.

With SO you also have no guarantee that the person has the license to put that snippet. Even that could have been copied from somewhere else. A customer was scanning for and banning SO, if that was the only determined source.

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