Richard Fontana
Open Source Licensing and Patent Counsel, Red Hat, Inc.

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Richard Fontana is Red Hat’s Open Source Licensing Counsel. At Red Hat he spends his time advising developers about FOSS licensing, copyright and patent issues, educating non-developers about FOSS culture, and promoting open standards and intellectual property legal reform.

Before joining Red Hat, Fontana was an attorney at the Software Freedom Law Center, where his principal client was the Free Software Foundation. He was co-author, with Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen, of the GNU GPL, version 3.

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