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Harald Welte is a freelancer, consultant, enthusiast, freedom fighter and
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hacker 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,
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OpenPICC. During 2006 and 2007 Harald became the co-founder of OpenMoko, where
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he served as Lead System Architect for the worlds first 100% Open Free Software
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based 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 companies
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have been resolved as part of this effort, both in court and out of court. He
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has received the 2007 "FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software" and the
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"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, both
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for passive sniffing and protocol analysis, as well as an actual network-side
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GSM stack implementation called OpenBSC. In 2010, he expanded those
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efforts by creating OsmocomBB, a GSM teleophony-side baseband processor
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firmware and protocol stack. Other recent projects include
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OsmocomTETRA, a receive-only implementation of the ETSI TETRA radio
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interface.
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Harald is co-founder of sysmocom - systems for mobile communications
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GmbH, but continues to operate his technology consulting business
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hmw-consulting.de
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