I'm a big fan of being overcommunicative in this regard. I'd hazard a guess that 9 out of 10 people with small code repos without a license have not bothered, o

I'm a big fan of being overcommunicative in this regard. I'd hazard a guess that 9 out of 10 people with small code repos without a license have not bothered, or forgot, or didn't know and 1 or less out of 10 want to convey an active non-license (All rights reserved?) as the parent commenter, that's why I am in favor of spelling that out explicitly. Personal opinion of how useful toy code that you can look at but not use or even let you be inspired from is notwithstanding, but I'm not trying to argue here.