After reading Fair Use When Referring to Book Answers? I dashed off an email to our friends at O'Reilly. 

I would like to know what the O'Reilly position is on the re-use of co
+de in
your books.
Specifically, I belong to an online community centered around the disc
+ussion
of Perl code:  www.perlmonks.com, and wonder if it's acceptable use to
+ quote code from 
your Perl books as an answer to posted questions (assuming proper attr
+ibution).
I know that most members of perlmonks already own a majority of the Pe
+rl
books you publish (I have 5), so I doubt it would negatively impact sa
+les.

Is this fair use?

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I received this response: 

For you, comrade, it's fair use. Perl monks should feel free to use th
+is 
code to answer posted questions.

Frank Willison
Editor-in-Chief
O'Reilly & Associates

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Thought you all might be interested.
Man....how cool is O'Reilly?

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