stealing coding work?

[jellybutter]

i'm not planning to do this or see this problem, but i am curious if there are rules protecting coding work, if you stole a piece of coding, would that be considered theft just like art theft? not layout plans, but taking the whole coding that you do not have permission to use. could you report somebody for this?

[skyline]

as this may be considered a form of art theft, there's no rule around the site that
states that there will be consequences for stealing coding, although i believe you
can report it, i'm unsure of the actions that will be taken against the theft, if any
at all.

[nickjr]

Just a heads up that coding theft is a thing in the real world, so @ everyone please don't think this is like this everywhere.

I imagine that the reason we can't make it an issue on CS is that the line is too fuzzy with BBCode. BBCode is very limited and there ultimately aren't that many combinations of BBCode that can be used. (Whereas in the real world, with programming languages and scripting languages and even the markup languages HTML/CSS, there are almost limitless ways of implementing anything, even if you try to make your code optimal, because there are often multiple optimal solutions.) So it's just not realistic to make it an issue on CS.

(By "real world" I mean once you get past the beginning stages/what is taught in school)

[jellybutter]

ok! thank u for the answers <3