License for website article

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Published on 2012-06-19T14:41:12Z Indexed on 2012/06/19 15:18 UTC
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On my personal website, I have some technical ideas and some source code snippets that I share with everybody. To make it clean that everyone can use those snippets as they like, as long as I do not have to provide any warranty, I would like to add a license to the some of the texts.

The bigger programs come with GPLv2+, which I think is a reasonable license for free code.

Does it make sense to use the MIT License or the GNU Free Documentation License for these texts or should I just go with CC-BY?

I am a German citizen, so I heard that the American licenses do not really apply to me at all. If so, that would be another advantage for the Creative Commons Family of License.

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