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Bradley M. Kuhn
Born 1973
United States Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Occupation FLOSS Community Liaison and Technology Director, Software Freedom Law Center
President, Software Freedom Conservancy
Website
http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/

Bradley M. Kuhn (born in 1973) is a free software activist from the United States. Kuhn is currently the FLOSS Community Liaison and Technology Director of Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) and president of the Software Freedom Conservancy. He previously served as the Executive Director of Free Software Foundation (FSF) from 2001 until March 2005. He is best known for his efforts in GPL enforcement, both at FSF and SFLC, as the creator of FSF's license list, and as the original author of the Affero clause of the AGPL. He has long been a proponent for non-profit structures for FLOSS development, and leads efforts in this direction through the Software Freedom Conservancy.

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Academia and early career

Kuhn attended Loyola Blakefield, followed by Loyola College in Maryland, graduating in May 1995[1] with a summa cum laude Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.

Kuhn attended graduate school at the Computer Science of the University of Cincinnati. His graduate adviser was John Franco.[2] Kuhn received a USENIX student grant scholarship for his thesis work.[3], which focused on dynamic interoperability of free software languages, using a port of Perl to the Java Virtual Machine as an example[4]. Larry Wall served on Kuhn's thesis committee. Kuhn's thesis showed various problems regarding the use of stack-based virtual machines for Perl, and this discovery became part of the justification for the launch of the Parrot project.

Kuhn was an active participant in the Perl6 RFC Process, and headed the perl6-licensing committee during the process.[5] He authored all RFCs submitted to the process on licensing.[6]

Kuhn taught AP Computer Science at Walnut Hills High School for the 1998-1999 academic year,[7] using a GNU/Linux-based lab built by the students themselves.[8]

Kuhn volunteered for the Free Software Foundation throughout graduate school, and was hired part time as Richard Stallman's assistant in January 2000.[9] During his early employment at the FSF, Kuhn suggested the creation of and maintained the FSF license list page, and argued against license proliferation.[10]

Kuhn was also an early and active member of the Cincinnati Linux User Group during this period, serving on its Board of Directors in 1998[11] and giving numerous presentations.[12]

Non-profit career

Kuhn was hired full-time to work at the FSF in late 2000, and was promoted to Executive Director in March 2001. Kuhn launched FSF's Associate Membership campaign, formalized its GNU General Public License (GPL) enforcement efforts into the GPL Compliance Labs[13], led FSF's response to the SCO lawsuit[14], authored the Affero clause of the AGPL, and taught numerous CLE classes for lawyers on the GPL.[15] [16]

Kuhn left the FSF in March 2005 to join the founding team of the Software Freedom Law Center with Eben Moglen and Daniel Ravicher, [17] and subsequently established the Software Freedom Conservancy in April 2006.[18]

At both the FSF and SFLC, Kuhn has been involved with all the major efforts in the United States to enforce the GPL.[19][20][21] At SFLC, he assisted Eben Moglen, Richard Stallman, and Richard Fontana in the drafting of the GPLv3, and managed the production of the software system for the GPLv3 Comment Process, called stet.[22][23] He advocated strongly for inclusion of the Affero clause in GPLv3, and then assisted with the production of the AGPLv3 after the decision to move the clause to its own license.

Kuhn currently serves as FLOSS Community Liaison and Technical Director of the Software Freedom Law Center, and as president of an affiliated organization, the Software Freedom Conservancy.

Poker

Kuhn is an avid poker player and played professionally on a part-time basis from 2002-2007.[24] Since January 2008, he has been a contributor to PokerSource[25], a GPL'd online poker system written and maintained by Loïc Dachary.

References

  1. ^ Loyola College in Maryland, Department of Computer Science (1995-05-). "Alumni: Class of 1995". Archived from the original on 2002-03-02. http://web.archive.org/web/20020302020907/http://www.cs.loyola.edu/alumni/class95.html. Retrieved 2008-07-05.  
  2. ^ University of Cincinnati (January 2001). "Bibliographical Entry for Considerations on Porting Perl to the Java Virtual Machine". OhioLINK ETD. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin983387768. Retrieved 2008-07-05.  
  3. ^ USENIX (September 1998). "Student Research Grants". http://www.usenix.org/students/sweb/archive/fellow_kuhn.html. Retrieved 2008-07-05.  
  4. ^ Kuhn, Bradley (January 2001). Considerations on Porting Perl to the Java Virtual Machine. University of Cincinnati. http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/writings/technical/thesis/. Retrieved 2008-06-28.  
  5. ^ Kuhn, Bradley (2000-08-02). The Copyright and Licensing Working Group. The Perl Foundation. http://dev.perl.org/perl6/rfc/13.html. Retrieved 2008-06-28.  
  6. ^ Kuhn, Bradley (2000-10-01). Perl6's License Should be (GPL or Artistic-2.0). The Perl Foundation. http://dev.perl.org/perl6/rfc/346.html. Retrieved 2008-06-28.  , Kuhn, Bradley (2000-09-12). The Artistic License Must Be Changed. The Perl Foundation. http://dev.perl.org/perl6/rfc/211.html. Retrieved 2008-06-28.  , Kuhn, Bradley (2000-09-13). Perl6's License Should Be a Minor Bugfix of Perl5's License. The Perl Foundation. http://dev.perl.org/perl6/rfc/219.html. Retrieved 2008-06-28.  
  7. ^ Rura, Shimon (2008-01-27). "Proudest Non-software Hack". http://rura.org/blog/2008/01/27/proudest-non-software-hack/.  
  8. ^ Camilla Warrick (1998-12-08). "Walnut Hills students convert computers at fraction of cost". The Cincinnati Post. Archived from the original on 2000-04-25. http://web.archive.org/web/20000425233820/http://www.cincypost.com/living/1998/shimon081298.html. Retrieved 2008-07-05.  
  9. ^ Kuhn is seen posting to lists in his professional capacity around this time (Kuhn, Bradley (2000-04-01). "Forwarded Message for RMS". gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list. http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2000-04/msg00007.html. Retrieved 2008-07-05.  )
  10. ^ The earliest archived version of the license list has bkuhn listed as its creator. (Bradley M. Kuhn (2000-08-15). "Various Licenses and Comments about Them" (HTML). Free Software Foundation. Archived from the original on 2000-08-15. http://web.archive.org/web/20000815065020/http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html. Retrieved 2008-07-05.  )
  11. ^ Cincinnati GNU/Linux Users Group (1998-11-30). "Minutes from November CLUG Meeting". Archived from the original on 2000-08-24. http://web.archive.org/web/20000824165955/www.clug.org/minutes/mtg981130.html. Retrieved 2008-07-05.  
  12. ^ Cincinnati GNU/Linux Users Group (2000-12-04). "CLUG Presentations". Archived from the original on 2000-12-04. http://web.archive.org/web/20001204204100/clug.org/presentations/index.html. Retrieved 2008-07-05.  
  13. ^ Corbet, Jonathan (2002-11-13). "The FSF GPL Compliance Lab" (in en). Linux Weekly News. http://lwn.net/Articles/15342/. Retrieved 2008-07-05.  
  14. ^ Kuhn, Bradley (2004-05-18). "The SCO Subpoena of FSF". Free Software Foundation. http://www.fsf.org/licensing/sco/subpoena.html. Retrieved 2008-07-05.  
  15. ^ Free Software Foundation (2003-06). "FSF Bulletin - Issue No.2 - June 2003". Free Software Foundation. http://www.gnu.org/bulletins/bulletin-002.html. Retrieved 2008-07-04.  
  16. ^ An FSF press release again notes Kuhn to teach the seminars in January 2004. (Free Software Foundation (2004-01-02). "FSF To Host Free Software Licensing Seminars and Discussions on SCO v. IBM in New York". Press release. http://www.gnu.org/press/2004-01-02-nyc-seminars.html. Retrieved 2008-07-04.  
  17. ^ Gasperson, Tina (2008-04-19). "Bradley Kuhn makes a better world through software freedom" (in en). Linux.com. p. 1. http://www.linux.com/feature/132573. Retrieved 2008-07-05.  
  18. ^ ScuttleMonkey (2006-04-03). "New Conservancy Offers Gratis Services to FOSS" (in en). Slashdot. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/03/1847227. Retrieved 2008-07-05.  
  19. ^ Meeker, Heather (2005-06-28). "The Legend of Linksys". Linux Insider. http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/qECCd2x743n32T/The-Legend-of-Linksys.xhtml. Retrieved 2007-08-11.  
  20. ^ Turner, David; Bradley M. Kuhn (2003-09-29). "Linksys/Cisco GPL Violations". LWN.net. http://lwn.net/Articles/51570/. Retrieved 2007-08-11.  
  21. ^ Landley, Rob (2006-09-21). "svn commit: trunk/busybox: applets include". busybox@busybox.net mailing list. http://busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-September/024593.html. Retrieved 2008-07-05.  
  22. ^ Gasperson, Tina (2008-04-19). "Bradley Kuhn makes a better world through software freedom" (in en). Linux.com. p. 3. http://www.linux.com/feature/132573. Retrieved 2008-07-05.  
  23. ^ Kuhn, Bradley (2007-11-21). "stet and AGPLv3". Software Freedom Law Center. http://www.softwarefreedom.org/technology/blog/2007/nov/21/stet-and-agplv3/. Retrieved 2008-06-14.  
  24. ^ "Software Freedom, Lawsuits, And Poker". Linux Outlaws. 2008-05-31. No. 40.
  25. ^ "ChangeLog of PokerSource project". Gna!. 2008-07-04. http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/pokersource/trunk/poker-network/ChangeLog. Retrieved 2008-07-06.  

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