Red Hat Research Quarterly

Richard Fontana

About the author

Richard Fontana is Senior Commercial Counsel at Red Hat and founder of Red Hat’s Technology and Open Source legal team. Before coming to Red Hat in 2008, Richard was counsel at the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) and served as one of the three principal authors of GPLv3. For several years, he was a board director for the Open Source Initiative and chaired its license review committee.

Articles by this author

Generative AI and large language models: how did we get here, where are we going, and what does it mean for open source?

We may not have all the answers, but we’re homing in on the essential questions about the future of AI and machine learning. If you’ve somehow managed to escape the last nine months of breathless headlines and wild speculation about ChatGPT and what it means for humanity, you are lucky indeed. It’s not as though […]