yeah... in the case of Intellectual Property (source code belonging to infopop) they're nice enough to allow the flowing of the source code all over the place in a public forum. Obviously if we post an entire file for example instead of small bits and pieces someone would get very upset. Still I tend to lean toward 1-2 lines of original unique code prior and 1-2 lines of original unique code after... and anything that needs to be replaced listed in total unless it is a major portion. Then you list a few unique lines from the top and bottom.
At least this was how "hacks" were done back in the "early days" of things like WWIV (I'm dating myself now haha) Of course now things get much more complicated then they used to be with the ease of viewing code outputs for graphics/formatting and most development tools like Dreamweaver UltraDev and other similar systems allow "drag and drop" database connectivity using ODBC databases which are virtually interchangable with one another etc.... anyone could easily slap a few things together and WHAM... a whole new system copied off someone else with a few "names changed" to protect the guilty.