"Alfred M. Szmidt" ams@gnu.org
Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
For example a book on networks might want to include the OOB-Data text from glibc. With 48 lines (w/o the example) it is clearly beyond fair use.
You can ask the FSF to make a execption for examples. This makes sense, and I doubt anyone would object.
and once more the hackers are reduced to serfs, begging the copyright barons for permission to make sensible use of tools they already hold. I wonder if we would have the FDL problem if bright young hacker modifying a printer driver on a PDP-11 had also wanted to reuse a description from its manual for another project? (See http://www.faifzilla.org/ch01.html )
(Actually, www.faifzilla.org is an interesting case, under the FDL but seemingly dead for over a year now, still not meeting WCAG1A and still not applying the FDL as advised.)