Bradley Kuhn

Bradley M. Kuhn is the Policy Fellow and Hacker-in-Residence at Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC). Kuhn began volunteering in the software freedom movement in 1992 — as an early adopter of Linux and contributor to many FOSS projects including Perl. As Free Software Foundation (FSF)'s Executive Director from 2001-2005, Kuhn led FSF’s GPL enforcement and invented the Affero GPL. Kuhn was SFC’s primary volunteer from 2006–2010 and its first staffer in 2011. At SFC Kuhn’s work focuses on enforcement of copyleft and the GPL agreements, FOSS licensing policy and FOSS non-profit infrastructure. Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science from Loyola University in Maryland and an M.S. in Computer Science from University of Cincinnati. Kuhn 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.