Law.  He has published numerous legal articles and given dozens of

presentations regarding Free and Open Source Software legal issues and

served as lead counsel for free and open source software developers in the

only GPL enforcement lawsuits ever brought in the United States.

Professor Ravicher has been labeled a modern day ‘Robin Hood’

by Science magazine, awarded an Echoing Green Fellowship for social

entrepreneurship, named to both Managing Intellectual Property magazine's

‘50 Most Influential People in IP’ list and IP Law & Business

magazine's ‘Top 50 Under 45’ list and twice invited to testify

before Congress on issues of technology legal policy.  Professor Ravicher

received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law,

where he was the Franklin O'Blechman Scholar of his class, a Mortimer

Caplin Public Service Award recipient and an Editor of the Virginia

Journal of Law and Technology, and his bachelors degree in materials

science magna cum laude with University Honors from the University of

South Florida.  Professor Ravicher writes for The Huffington Post and

Seeking Alpha and is admitted to the United States Supreme Court, the

Courts of Appeals for the Federal, 2nd and 11th Circuits, the District

Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the State of

New York, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Professor Ravicher is also the Executive Director

of  <a href="http://pubpat.org">the Public Patent Foundation</a>.

</p>

<h1>Directors Emeriti</h1>

<p><em>Directors Emeriti of the Software Freedom Conservancy are former

    members of Conservancy's <a href="/about/board/">Board of

    Directors</a> who continue to support Conservancy's mission and

    occasionally advise Conservancy.</em></p>

<h2>Ian Lance Taylor - Director Emeritus</h2>

<p>Ian Lance Taylor began working with free software in 1990.  He wrote

the popular free Taylor UUCP package and has contributed to a wide range

of free software projects, particularly the GNU compiler and binary

utilities.  He worked with free software at Cygnus Solutions, Zembu Labs,

Wasabi Systems, and C2 Microsystems, and currently does GNU compiler and

tools development at Google.  He received a B.S. in Computer Science from

Yale University.</p>

<h2>Tom Tromey - Director Emeritus</h2>

<p>Tom Tromey started working on free software in 1991.  He was the

primary author of GNU Automake, and has also worked on a wide range of

other free software projects.  He is currently a maintainer of GNU gcj and

works at Red Hat.  He received a B.S. in mathematics from the California