Re:Modern C++: 7 Ways to Fake It Until You Have It
by Someone on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @02:43AM
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That’s not just a link-back. Maintaining even one such text fragment across the history of a project already is hard. With every edit of the file, you’ll have to evaluate whether the gist of the original code still is there.
Let’s say somebody copy-pastes half an example somewhere else. Should that have a link back, too?
I think, the smaller the fragment copied, the harder this is.
https://en.cppreference.com/w/Cppreference:FAQ
This states that the website's contents are licensed under CC-BY-SA and GFDL, both basically just requiring a link-back to the source. Furthermore, example implementations in reference websites are basically meant to be copy pasted. That's, like, the whole point of their existence.