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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.
personal git repositories of Harald Welte. Your mileage may vary