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Bradley M. Kuhn (born 1973) is a free software activist from the United States. Kuhn is currently President of the Software Freedom Conservancy, having previously been Executive Director.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Software Freedom Conservancy Appoints Full-Time Executive Director )〕 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 was elected to the FSF's board of directors in March 2010. He is best known for his efforts in GPL enforcement, both at FSF and SFLC, 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.〔(O'Reilly Open Source Awards )〕 == Academia and early career == Kuhn attended Loyola Blakefield, followed by Loyola College in Maryland, graduating in May 1995 with a summa cum laude Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. Kuhn attended graduate school in Computer Science at the University of Cincinnati. His graduate adviser was John Franco. Kuhn received a USENIX student grant scholarship for his thesis work., which focused on dynamic interoperability of free software languages, using a port of Perl to the Java Virtual Machine as an example. Larry Wall served on Kuhn's thesis committee. Kuhn's thesis showed various problems regarding the use of stack-based virtual machines for Perl, and this discovery became part of the justification for the launch of the Parrot project. Kuhn was an active participant in the Perl6 RFC Process, and headed the perl6-licensing committee during the process. The RFCs on licensing were all written by him. Kuhn taught AP Computer Science at Walnut Hills High School for the 1998-1999 academic year, using a GNU/Linux-based lab built by the students themselves. Kuhn volunteered for the Free Software Foundation throughout graduate school, and was hired part-time as Richard Stallman's assistant in January 2000. Kuhn is seen posting to lists in his professional capacity around this time.〔)〕 During his early employment at the FSF, Kuhn suggested the creation of and maintained the FSF ''license list'' page, and argued against license proliferation.〔The earliest archived version of the license list has ''bkuhn'' listed as its creator. ()〕 Kuhn was also an early and active member of the Cincinnati Linux User Group during this period, serving on its Board of Directors in 1998〔 〕 and giving numerous presentations.〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bradley M. Kuhn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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