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Harald Welte is a data communications freelancer, enthusiast and hacker
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who is working with Free Software (and particularly GNU/Linux)
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since 1995 His major code contribution to the Linux kernel was as a
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core developer of the netfilter/iptables packet filter.
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He has co-started a number of other Free Software and Open Hardware
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projects, from RFID to telephony - including the worlds first 100% Open
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Free Software based mobile phone OpenMoko.
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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, which later developed towards
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GPRS, EDGE and UMTS. In 2010, he expanded those efforts by creating
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OsmocomBB, a GSM telephony-side baseband processor firmware and
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protocol stack. Other projects include OsmocomTETRA, a receive-only
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implementation of the ETSI TETRA radio interface.
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