On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 19:57 US/Eastern, Richard Stallman wrote:
In a nightmare one can imagine large numbers of cover texts in one manual, but it isn't likely to happen. Where the BSD advertising clause produced a mountain, the GFDL produces a molehill.
At least one situation comes to mind where it might happen: If I wanted to publish a collection of HOWTOs, e.g., from the LDP. If every one of them included front and back cover texts, that'd be a mountain.