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+Harald Welte is a freelancer, consultant, enthusiast, freedom fighter and
+hacker who is working with Free Software (and particularly the Linux kernel)
+since 1995. His first major code contribution to the kernel was within the
+netfilter/iptables packet filter.
+
+He has started a number of other Free Software and Free Hardware projects,
+mainly related to RFID such as librfid, OpenMRTD, OpenBeacon, OpenPCD,
+OpenPICC. During 2006 and 2007 Harald became the co-founder of OpenMoko, where
+he served as Lead System Architect for the worlds first 100% Open Free Software
+based mobile phone.
+
+Aside from his technical contributions, Harald has been pioneering the legal
+enforcement of the GNU GPL license as part of his gpl-violations.org project.
+More than 150 inappropriate use of GPL licensed code by commercial companies
+have been resolved as part of this effort, both in court and out of court. He
+has received the 2007 "FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software" and the
+"2008 Google/O'Reilly Open Source award: Defender of Rights".
+
+In 2008, Harald started to work on Free Software on the GSM protocol side, both
+for passive sniffing and protocol analysis, as well as an actual network-side
+GSM stack implementation called OpenBSC. In 2010, he expanded those
+efforts by creating OsmocomBB, a GSM teleophony-side baseband processor
+firmware and protocol stack. Other recent projects include
+OsmocomTETRA, a receive-only implementation of the ETSI TETRA radio
+interface.
+
+Harald is co-founder of sysmocom - systems for mobile communications
+GmbH, but continues to operate his technology consulting business
+hmw-consulting.de
+
personal git repositories of Harald Welte. Your mileage may vary