Considering that what I was hearing when the first posts were hitting who_knits were along the lines of wondering why the hell the BBC pulled out the C&D instead of looking into licensing the patterns, I'm pleased to hear the update about a new pattern book. (Also, the impression I got at the time was that the BBC wasn't necessarily notified by eBay, but rather by the person whose auction got yanked reacting somewhat vengefully against the original designer who got their auction yanked. This being mere speculation at the time, though.)

ETA: Also, I clearly had not read the other comments on this entry before posting this. But I remain pleased by the discussion of a pattern book, that being the big complaint I remember from the original who_knits post, about them refusing to let amateurs do something the BBC wasn't troubling to do "officially."