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== Richard Fontana ==
== Richard Fontana ==


My name is Richard Fontana. Currently I am something of a leech as far as contributing to the Fedora Project is concerned, but I do help out in the course of performing my day job as Open Source Licensing and Patent Counsel at Red Hat.
My name is Richard Fontana. My contributions to the Fedora Project are mostly related to my day job in Red Hat's legal department.  


I am very interested in issues relating to open source and free software law and policy and have given a number of talks on such subject matter, including:
I was a Red Hat Linux user for many years, beginning sometime in 1997. I began using Fedora shortly after I started working at Red Hat in early 2008. I've used Fedora extensively since then. Currently I have Fedora Workstation and Fedora Silverblue installed on a few laptops and I also run Fedora Server on a NUC.
* [http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011/public/schedule/speaker/46421 Contributor Agreements Considered Harmful] ([http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011/profile/46421 OSCON 2011])
* [https://archive.fosdem.org/2012/schedule/speaker/richard_fontana.html The (Possible) Decline of the GPL, and What to Do About It] (FOSDEM 2012)
* The Decline of the GPL, and What to Do About It (LF Collab Summit 2012 (Free as in Freedom oggcast [http://faif.us/cast/2012/may/22/0x29/ recording]
 
Upcoming talks:
* [http://lcna2012.sched.org/speaker/richardfontana#.UBBnQDtxFFc The Tragedy of the Commons Gatekeepers] (LinuxCon NA 2012)
 
 
I was a Red Hat Linux user for many years, beginning sometime in 1997. I didn't really begin using Fedora until I started working at Red Hat in early 2008. I've used Fedora nearly exclusively since then for laptop/desktop use.
 
Prior to joining Red Hat in 2008, I worked as Counsel at the [http://www.softwarefreedom.org/about/team/ Software Freedom Law Center], where I worked on various legal matters for nonprofit free software and open source projects and organizations, the best known of which was my work on GPLv3 for the FSF.
 
== Contact ==
 
*'''Mail''': rfontana at redhat dot com
*'''IRC''': fontana on freenode
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*'''Identi.ca''': [http://identi.ca/fontana fontana]
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*'''Google+''': [https://plus.google.com/u/0/108734078357082390655 https://plus.google.com/u/0/108734078357082390655]
*'''LinkedIn''': [http://www.linkedin.com/in/richardfontana http://www.linkedin.com/in/richardfontana]
 
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Latest revision as of 00:05, 28 January 2022

Richard Fontana

My name is Richard Fontana. My contributions to the Fedora Project are mostly related to my day job in Red Hat's legal department.

I was a Red Hat Linux user for many years, beginning sometime in 1997. I began using Fedora shortly after I started working at Red Hat in early 2008. I've used Fedora extensively since then. Currently I have Fedora Workstation and Fedora Silverblue installed on a few laptops and I also run Fedora Server on a NUC.