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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.

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:

• Contributor Agreements Considered Harmful (OSCON 2011)
• 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 recording

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 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
• Fedora Account: ref
• Identi.ca: fontana
• Twitter: richardfontana
• Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/108734078357082390655
• LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/richardfontana

Some Other People Named Richard Fontana

I am not (nor do I know or am I related to): a Yonkers solo practitioner specializing to some degree in PI law, or a Monterey web designer.