Ethics 101: To re-use or not to re-use?

[AdamHeard]

Well.

My team has used the same PID algorithm two years in a row. But, it was pretty much a standard one we got out of a book anyway. All the implementation and the gains were different, but that was still the same. I don't see this as violating the rules because the only way around it would be to intentionally changing the algorithm just so we can use it.

Also, code that we used from someone else may have been used twice. I think we may have unintentionally violated this rule with Kevin W's code, but I'm not sure if that counts.


Really, in most situations it wouldn't even be possible to simply copy and paste previous years' code.