Richard Fontana
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). In 2012 Fontana began drafting copyleft-next, a modification of the
GNU General Public License, version 3 (GPLv3).
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. He is currently a member-elected director of the
Open Source Initiative.
Fontana attended
Hunter College High School in New York City. 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.
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