Group:Free Software Foundation/Licensing Volunteers

Licensing Volunteers

Licensing volunteers help the FSF answer the many questions we receive every day regarding the use and abuse of free software licenses. They discuss issues in #fsf-licensing on freenode with the FSF licensing staff in order to help the free software community to better understand licensing. Volunteers can also take on various licensing related projects, like helping import licenses from our license list into the Free Software Directory. Note that volunteers (even if they are lawyers) are not permitted or asked to give legal advice as part of their volunteer work. If you are interested in becoming a licensing volunteer, then please write to <licensing@fsf.org> and tell us a bit about your background, both legal and with the free software community.

Current Volunteer Team

In no particular order, they are:

• Karl Berry
• Yoni Rabkin
• Michael Fötsch
• Luigi Bai

Potential Projects

Below is a list of some potential licensing projects that you might be interested in undertaking. If you want to take on one of these projects, or if you have an idea for a different licensing project you'd like to work on, let us know by sending a message to <licensing@fsf.org>. We would love to have your help.

• Collect interview candidates who selected GPLv3 for their project
• Collect license use statistics
• Work on updating <http://directory.fsf.org> with free software packages
• Update our license compatibility chart to have AGPLv3 included - <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility>