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Harald Welte is a freelancer, consultant, enthusiast, freedom fighter and
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hcaker who is working with Free Software (and particularly the Linux kernel)
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since 1995. His first major code contribution to the kernel was within the
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netfilter/iptables packet filter.
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He has started a number of other Free Software and Free Hardware projects,
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mainly related to RFID such as librfid, OpenMRTD, OpenBeacon, OpenPCD, OpenPICC.
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During 2006 and 2007 Harald became the co-founder of OpenMoko, where he served
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as Lead System Architect for the worlds first 100% Open Free Software based
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mobile phone.
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Aside from his technical contributions, Harald has been pioneering the legal
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enforcement of the GNU GPL license as part of his gpl-violations.org project.
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More than 150 inappropriate use of GPL licensed code by commercial companiess
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have been resolved as part of this effort, both in court and out of court.
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He has received the 2007 "FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software" and
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the "2008 Google/O'Reilly Open Source award: Defender of Rights".
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In 2008, Harald started to work on Free Software on the GSM protocol side,
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both for passive sniffing and protocol analysis, as well as an actual
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network-side GSM stack implementation called OpenBSC. He is currently in the
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early design phase for the hardware and software design of a Free Software
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based GSM baseband side.
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Harald is currently working as "Open Source Liaison" for the Taiwanese CPU,
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chipset and peripheral design house VIA, helping them to understand how to
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attain the best possible Free Software support for their components.
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He continues to operate his consulting business hmw-consulting.
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