Richard Fontana is a lawyer who has specialized in open source and free software legal matters for the past 14 years. He currently works at Red Hat and previously held positions at Hewlett-Packard, the Software Freedom Law Center, and several law firms. He was a member-elected director of the Open Source Initiative for several years and chaired the OSI’s license review committee. He is a frequent public speaker on topics at the intersection of open source, law, and policy.