Bradley M. Kuhn (born in 1973) is a free software activist from the United States. Kuhn is currently the FLOSS Community Liaison and Technology Director of Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) and president of the Software Freedom Conservancy.

He previously served as the Executive Director of Free Software Foundation (FSF) from 2001 until March 2005. He is best known for his efforts in GPL enforcement, both at FSF and SFLC, as the creator of FSF's license list, and as the original author of the Affero clause of the AGPL. He has long been a proponent for non-profit structures for FLOSS development, and leads efforts in this direction through the Software Freedom Conservancy.

Kuhn attended Loyola Blakefield, followed by Loyola College in Maryland, graduating in May 1995 with a summa cum laude Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. Kuhn attended graduate school at the Computer Science of the University of Cincinnati. His graduate adviser was John Franco.

Kuhn received a USENIX student grant scholarship for his thesis work., which focused on dynamic interoperability of free software languages, using a port of Perl to the Java Virtual Machine as an example. Larry Wall served on Kuhn's thesis committee. Kuhn's thesis showed various problems regarding the use of stack-based virtual machines for Perl, and this discovery became part of the justification for the launch of the Parrot project.

Kuhn was an active participant in the Perl6 RFC Process, and headed the perl6-licensing committee during the process. He authored all RFCs submitted to the process on licensing.

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