Bradley M. Kuhn
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Bradley M. Kuhn (born 1973) is a free software activist from the United States.
Bradley M. Kuhn | |
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Born | 1973 (age 50–51) |
Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | Policy Fellow and Hacker-in-Residence, Software Freedom Conservancy[1] |
Education | |
Known for | Perl6, open source software |
Awards | 2012 O'Reilly Open Source Award, 2020 Advancement for Free Software Award |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer science |
Institutions | |
Thesis | Considerations on Porting Perl to the Java Virtual Machine (M.S. thesis) (2001) |
Academic advisors | John Franco |
Website | http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/ |
Kuhn is currently Policy Fellow and Hacker-in-Residence of the Software Freedom Conservancy,[2] having previously been executive director.[3] Until 2010 he was the FLOSS Community Liaison and Technology Director of the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC). He previously served as the Executive Director of Free Software Foundation (FSF) from 2001 until March 2005. He served on the FSF's board of directors from March 2010[4] until October 2019.[5]
He is best known for his efforts in GPL enforcement,[6] as the creator of FSF's license list, and as original author of the Affero General Public License. He has long been a proponent for non-profit structures for FLOSS development, and leads efforts in this direction through the Software Freedom Conservancy. He is a recipient of the 2012 O'Reilly Open Source Award.[7]