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diff --git a/2016/open-compliance-jp/bio.txt b/2016/open-compliance-jp/bio.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0268a5f --- /dev/null +++ b/2016/open-compliance-jp/bio.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +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. |