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Richard is Red Hat's Open Source Licensing and Patent Counsel. His work focuses on advising developers, managers and fellow lawyers about open source licensing, copyright and patent issues, educating non-developers about free software culture, and promoting open standards and intellectual property law reform.

Prior to joining Red Hat, Richard was Counsel at the Software Freedom Law Center, where he advised free software and open source projects and foundations. He was co-author, with Richard M. Stallman and Eben Moglen, of version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GPLv3), the first update of the most widely used free software/open source license in over 15 years.