Book on Practical GPL Compliance

My former gpl-violations.org colleague Armijn Hemel and Shane Coughlan
(former coordinator of the FSFE Legal Network) have written a book on
practical GPL compliance issues.

I've read through it (in the bath tub of course, what better place to
read technical literature), and I can agree wholeheartedly with its
contents. For those who have been involved in GPL compliance
engineering there shouldn't be much new - but for the vast majority of
developers out there who have had little exposure to the
bread-and-butter work of providing complete an corresponding source
code, it makes an excellent introductory text.

The book focuses on compliance with GPLv2, which is probably not too
surprising given that it's published by the Linux foundation, and Linux
being GPLv2.

You can download an electronic copy of the book from
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/research/practical-gpl-compliance

Given the subject matter is Free Software, and the book is written by
long-time community members, I cannot help to notice a bit of a surprise
about the fact that the book is released in classic copyright under All
rights reserved with no freedom to the user.

Considering the sensitive legal topics touched, I can understand the
possible motivation by the authors to not permit derivative works. But
then, there still are licenses such as CC-BY-ND which prevent derivative
works but still permit users to make and distribute copies of the work
itself. I've made that recommendation / request to Shane, let's see
if they can arrange for some more freedom for their readers.