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
Here are some potential licensing projects that you might be interested in undertaking.
- Collect interview candidates who selected GPLv3 for their project
- collect information on Ohloh related to licensing
- work on directory.fsf.org
- update compatibility chart to have AGPLv3 included - <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility>
Do 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.
