Richard Fontana Explained
Richard Fontana is a lawyer in the United States who is particularly known for his work in the area of open source and free software. Fontana works at Red Hat. Before Red Hat he was counsel at the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC).[1] In 2012 Fontana began drafting copyleft-next, a modification of the GNU General Public License, version 3 (GPLv3).[2] [3] [4] While at SFLC, Fontana was one of the three principal authors, along with Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen, of the GPLv3, the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3 (LGPLv3), and the GNU Affero General Public License.[5] [6] He is currently a member-elected director of the Open Source Initiative.[7] Fontana attended Hunter College High School in New York City.[8] He received a bachelor's degree in history from Wesleyan University, a master's degree in computer science from Yale University, and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan Law School.[9]
References
- Web site: . Red Hat Announces Key New Appointments to its Open Source Licensing & Intellectual Property Law Team . Red Hat, inc. . 2008-03-05 . PDF . 2008-06-14 .
- Web site: copyleft-next. July 9, 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20121217110347/https://gitorious.org/copyleft-next. December 17, 2012.
- Web site: Small Copyleft.next Open Source Software License Project Attracts Big Interest. July 11, 2012.
- Web site: The next GPL: Why it's being shaped on GitHub (InfoWorld). July 6, 2012.
- Web site: GPLv3 authors comment on final draft . https://archive.today/20130128032432/http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS8853808815.html . dead . 2013-01-28 . 2008-03-04.
- Web site: The GPLv3 process: Public consultation and private drafting . 2008-03-04.
- http://opensource.org/node/674 OSI Welcomes Member-Elected Director
- [Hunter College High School#Alumni]
- Web site: Legal Summit for Software Freedom – October 12, 2007 – Columbia Law School . 2015-04-08.
