> So each individual page is LGPL but the compilation is "all rights reserved".

By the way, what's the copyright status of code copied from cookbooks? A
cookbook is supposed to be a place from where you can quickly and easily
adapt some code to get a job done. So tricky licensing defeats the whole
purpose - if you need to worry about copyright or paste some wordy
license into your project, then it's easier to just go without the
cookbook altogether and do some detective work to come up with your own
code from scratch.

For the purpose of copy-pasting simple code, even the MIT license is
quite wordy (I mean, the license text is longer than most of the code
snippets it would cover!)

Public domain would be great, but it's a complex affair in Europe - last
I checked, you can't simply relinquish copyright over here by saying
"Public domain".

Here's the Stack Overflow licensing policy:
<https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing>. Apparently they are using
Creative Commons CC-BY-SA for user contributions. For prose it's ok. But
for code snippets - how can it possibly work? Nobody is going to even
realize they should follow that license.