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+Strategies in practical GPL enforcement
+
+Enforcement of copyleft licenses like the GNU GPL has always been a
+somewhat controversial topic.  Some people are not in favor of
+enforcement at all (but then, why choose the GPL and not a permissive
+license?).  Other people have less inhibitions in enforcing the
+license.  But then this raises the next questions?  Enforcement using
+which strategy?  Enforcement using which methods?  The Linux Kernel
+developer community has recently re-fueled that debate on the
+ksummit-discuss mailing list.
+
+Ultimately, most projects and developers are looking for the
+downstream developers and companies to participate in a collaborative
+development model.  The copyleft principle is just a legal "hack" to
+codify some part of that based on copyright.  As a result, license
+compliance is not an end in itself, but the very bare legal minimum of
+what needs to be done when engaging in (particularly
+corporate/commercial) re-use of Free Software.
+
+This talk will look at the different (GPL) license enforcement
+approaches and present their advantages and disadvantages.
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+Harald Welte is a data communications freelancer, enthusiast and hacker
+who is working with Free Software (and particularly GNU/Linux)
+since 1995  His major code contribution to the Linux kernel was as a
+core developer of the netfilter/iptables packet filter.
+
+He has co-started a number of other Free Software and Open Hardware
+projects, from RFID to telephony - including the worlds first 100% Open
+Free Software based mobile phone OpenMoko.
+
+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, which later developed towards
+GPRS, EDGE and UMTS.  In 2010, he expanded those efforts by creating
+OsmocomBB, a GSM telephony-side baseband processor firmware and
+protocol stack.  Other projects include OsmocomTETRA, a receive-only
+implementation of the ETSI TETRA radio interface.