bkuhn

Profile

Tagline

Software Freedom Advocate and Licensing Expert

Company

Software Freedom Law Center

Link to web site

http://ebb.org/bkuhn/

Interest

Non-Profit

Link to Twitter stream

http://identi.ca/bkuhn

Bio

Kuhn began his work in the Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS)
Movement as a volunteer in 1992, when he became an early adopter of the
popular GNU/Linux operating system, and began contributing to various
FLOSS projects. He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator and
software development consultant for various companies, large and small.
He also taught Advanced Placement Computer Science (using FLOSS) at Walnut
Hills High School in Cincinnati. In January 2000, he was hired by the
Free Software Foundation (FSF). From 2001 until 2005, he was FSF’s
Executive Director, where he led FSF’s GPL enforcement efforts, launched
the Associate Member program, and invented the Affero GPL. In 2005, he
left FSF to join the founding team of the Software Freedom Law Center,
where he still works as a Policy Analyst and Technology Director. Kuhn
holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science from Loyola College in
Maryland, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of
Cincinnati. His Master’s thesis discussed methods for interoperability of
dynamic languages, which helped justify the need for the Parrot VM
project. Kuhn is also a director and president of the Software Freedom
Conservancy, and a member of the autonomo.us committee, which studies
issues of software freedom as they relate to network services.

History

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