Harald Welte
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Harald Welte | |
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| Born | 1979 (age 46–47) |
| Occupation | Programmer |
| Website | http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/ |
Harald Welte, also known as LaForge, is a German programmer.
Welte is the founder of the free software project Osmocom and was formerly involved in the netfilter/iptables and Openmoko projects. He is a member of the Chaos Computer Club.
Until 2007, Welte was the chairman of the core team responsible for the netfilter/iptables project.[1] He is also credited with writing the UUCP over SSL how-to, and contributions to User-mode Linux and international encryption kernel projects, among others.
Welte has become prominent for his work with gpl-violations.org, an organisation he set up in 2004[2] to track down and prosecute violators of the GPL, which had been untested in court until then.
Welte was part of Openmoko team, a project to create a smartphone platform using free software.[3] However, in 2007, Welte announced his withdrawal from Openmoko, citing internal friction and demotivation. He continues to contribute as a volunteer to the project.[4]
On 25 July 2008, VIA Technologies appointed Harald Welte as its open source liaison. According to VIA, in his role as open source liaison, Welte will be responsible for helping refine VIA's open source strategy and optimise its support for Linux. Welte will also "assist VIA to develop drivers that are in line with the standards and best practices of Linux kernel development, enhance the quality and public availability of VIA documentation, and improve interaction with the open source development community".[5]
Welte is the founder of the Osmocom project.
