New project: The GPL with comments
For a period I have wondered if I should undertake to write another book on an IT-law related issue and the case of yes which should be the topic. Everyone who has written something amounted to just a smaller volume of a book would probably agree that it is extremely time consuming and at times - maybe almost always - a tortuous affair. My last project - Internet Law, second edition - was no exception to this rule! So it has taken me a lot of thought to dare to venture into another writing project.
Now I am considering taking on writing together with Peter Toft - a Danish Linux sage - to examine the GPL from a legal and technical angle and synthesize this to a legal commentary on the GPL. Such a book would - if we succeed in making it useful - provide an important tool for all those business that are trying to make sense of using GPL’ed software in their business often in combination with closed-source software.
