Richard Fontana

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Richard Fontana
Born United States Brooklyn, NY, U.S.
Occupation Lawyer, Red Hat

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 and previously worked 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]


References

  1. ↑ "Red Hat Announces Key New Appointments to its Open Source Licensing & Intellectual Property Law Team" (PDF). Red Hat, inc. 2008-03-05. Retrieved 2008-06-14. 
  2. ↑ "copyleft-next". July 9, 2012. 
  3. ↑ "Small Copyleft.next Open Source Software License Project Attracts Big Interest". July 11, 2012. 
  4. ↑ "The next GPL: Why it's being shaped on GitHub (InfoWorld)". July 6, 2012. 
  5. ↑ "GPLv3 authors comment on final draft". Retrieved 2008-03-04. 
  6. ↑ "The GPLv3 process: Public consultation and private drafting". Retrieved 2008-03-04. 
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