- Richard Fontana
infobox person
name = Richard Fontana
birth_place = flagicon|USABrooklyn, NY , U.S.
occupation =Lawyer ,Red Hat Richard Fontana is a
free software andopen source lawyer in theUnited States . Fontana served as legal counsel at theSoftware Freedom Law Center (SFLC) fromDecember 5 ,2005 untilFebruary 29 ,2008 . Fontana is currently Open Source Licensing and Patent Counsel atRed Hat [cite web
authorlink =Red Hat
title = Red Hat Announces Key New Appointments to its Open Source Licensing & Intellectual Property Law Team
publisher = Red Hat, inc.
date= 2008-03-05
url = http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2008/appts.html
format = PDF
accessdate = 2008-06-14 ] .Work at SFLC
Fontana was one of the three principal authors, along with
Richard Stallman andEben Moglen , of theGNU General Public License , version 3 (GPLv3), theGNU Lesser General Public License , version 3 (LGPLv3), and theGNU Affero General Public License . [cite web
url=http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS8853808815.html
title= GPLv3 authors comment on final draft
accessdate=2008-03-04] [cite web |url= http://www.linux.com/articles/56554
title= The GPLv3 process: Public consultation and private drafting |accessdate=2008-03-04] Fontana's work at SFLC included representingfree software andopen source clients such as theFree Software Foundation , assisting them on copyright and patent issues.References
Persondata
NAME=Fontana, Richard
SHORT DESCRIPTION=American lawyer; Free Software Activist
PLACE OF BIRTH=Brooklyn ,New York
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