Welcome to the Legal & Policy Issues DevRoom
UB5.230 | Day 1 | 10:30 - 10:45 | Speakers: Karen Sandler, Tom Marble, Alexander Sander, Bradley M. Kühn, Matthias Kirschner, Richard Fontana
Abstract
DevRoom organisers welcome all to the Legal & Policy Issues DevRoom
Speakers
Tom Marble is best known for being the first "OpenJDK Ambassador" on the Sun Microsystems core team that open sourced the Java programming language. He continues to apply his community experiences in open source projects and serves as a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy's Evaluation Committee.
He is the founder of Informatique, Inc., a consultancy which leverages his hardware, software and legal engineering background for client projects as diverse as telematics for electric vehicles, probabilistic model checking, autonomous cyber defense, and sustainable industrial design.
Bradley M. Kühn is the Policy Fellow and Hacker-in-Residence at Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC). Kühn began his work in the software freedom movement as a volunteer in 1992 — as an early adopter of Linux-based systems and contributor to various FOSS projects, including Perl. He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator and software developer for various companies, and taught AP Computer Science at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati. Kühn’s non-profit career began in 2000, when he was hired by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). As FSF’s Executive Director from 2001–2005, Kühn led FSF’s GPL enforcement, launched its Associate Member program, and invented the Affero GPL. Kühn began as SFC’s primary volunteer from 2006–2010, and became its first staff person in 2011. Kühn's work at SFC focuses on enforcement of the GPL agreements, FOSS licensing policy, and non-profit infrastructural solutions for FOSS. Kühn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science from Loyola University in Maryland, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Cincinnati. Kühn's Master's thesis discussed methods for dynamic interoperability of Free Software programming languages. Kühn received the Open Source Award in 2012, and the Award for the Advancement of Free Software in 2021 — both in recognition for his lifelong policy work on copyleft licensing and its enforcement.
Matthias Kirschner is President of FSFE. In 1999 he started using GNU/Linux and realised that software is deeply involved in all aspects of our lives. Matthias is convinced that this technology has to empower society not restrict it. While studying Political and Administrative Science he joined FSFE in 2004.
He helps other organisations, companies and governments to understand how they can benefit from Free Software -- which gives everybody the rights to use, understand, adapt, and share software -- and how those rights help to support freedom of speech, freedom of press or privacy.
Recently, in his spare time, he has written the story "Ada & Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream", which is available as book at publishers in English, German, French, and Italian, and translated into over 25 other languages and as movie on several platforms.
Richard Fontana is a lawyer who has specialized in open source and free software legal issues for a surprisingly long time. He currently works at ~Red Hat~IBM supporting Red Hat.
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