Much noise for nothing. I fail to see where "copying code" happens here. The unfortunate developer copied standard key/value from the SO answer and forgot to change the value. It's like blaming somebody for "hello world" or fooBar.

“busted” for using code that works without introducing bugs to show you understood It... Whether, let alone how, they violated the license is not a subject of the article. Expecting code review to detect plaigarism is.. Writing code is editing an encyclopedia, not writing poetry.

If using code from Stack Overflow is plagiarism, then something something glass houses.

Expecting code review to detect obviously-wrong placeholder text, however, is pretty reasonable.

If we are supposed to be the last line of defense against poor English in products on the US market then that explains a lot.

I really don't see the issue here, I'd be more upset with my QA team.