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Re:A repository of modern C++ code samples curated by the co... by vog on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @11:39AM (#9334791)
A single, trivial code snippet may not carry a copyright at all.

But a whole collection of such snippets will fall under copyright, even if each individual bit alone wouldn't qualify.

So it is important to make the licensing explicit here. CC0 / Public Domain is a natural choice, given that the code snippets are meant to be used individually and that no "real" license would make any sense on individual code snippets.

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