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License

Last updated: July 2026

This page covers the license for the content of cppidioms.com — idiom descriptions, code examples, the User Guide, and comments. It does not cover the site's underlying software, which is not published under this license.

1. License

All content on this site is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).

2. What this means

You are free to:

  • Share — copy and redistribute the content in any medium or format
  • Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the content, for any purpose, including commercially

as long as you:

  • Give appropriate credit to cppidioms.com, link to this license, and note if changes were made
  • Share alike — distribute your contributions under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license as the original

3. Attribution example

When reusing an idiom page, a reasonable attribution looks like:

"RAII", cppidioms.com, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

4. Contributions

By creating or editing an idiom, or posting a comment, you agree that your contribution is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 on the same terms — the same way every other contributor's contribution is. This is what allows the site to keep growing as a shared, freely reusable resource.

5. Changes

We may update this license page at any time by posting a revised version here. Content already published remains available under the license terms in effect at the time it was published.

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