Speaker - Bradley M. Kühn

Bradley M. Kühn is the Policy Fellow and Hacker-in-Residence at Software Freedom Conservancy ("SFC") and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the copyleft-next license. 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.

Kühn worked during the 1990s as a system administrator and software developer for various companies, and also spent one year teaching high school Advanced Placement Computer Science. As FSF's Executive Director from 2001–2005, Kühn led FSF's GPL enforcement, launched its Associate Member program, and invented the copyleft network services clause found in the Affero GPL. Kühn was SFC's primary volunteer from 2006–2010, and became its first staff person in 2011. Kühn's work at SFC focuses on enforcement of copyleft and 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 FOSS programming languages. Kühn received the 2012 Open Source Award, and the 2021 Award for the Advancement of Free Software --- both in recognition for his lifelong policy work on copyleft licensing and its enforcement.

Kühn writes about his work on SFC\'s blog and as \@bkuhn@copyleft.org on the Fediverse (via Mastodon){rel="me"}.