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Netgear router not open source, says coder

...code. The claims were made in a blog post on Wednesday by Harald Welte, Linux watchdog and developer. Welte told ZDNet UK that the Netgear... Read more

7 October, 2009 by Tom Espiner

Open-source legal body sues over GPL violation

...satisfied with the pace of enforcement, however, including German open-source programmer Harald Welte. "Violators don't lose anything by first not complying and waiting... Read more

1 October, 2007 by Stephen Shankland

Fortinet settles GPL violation suit

...the company said on Tuesday. Earlier this month, gpl-violations.org founder Harald Welte obtained a court injunction against Fortinet, banning the company from distributing... Read more

26 April, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Defender of the Linux faith

Earlier this week, open source developer Harald Welte personally handed over warning letters to 13 technology companies at the... Read more

17 March, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Skype agrees to obey GPL

...has abandoned its efforts to overturn the conviction, according to software developer Harald Welte, who runs gpl-violations.org. "In the end, the court hinted... Read more

9 May, 2008 by Peter Judge

How important is GPL enforcement?

...licence, a role in which they follow the well known campaign of Harald Welte, who has forced companies like Skype to comply with the rules... Read more

22 November, 2007

German court convicts Skype of GPL breach

...from the gpl-violations.org project, a website run by software developer Harald Welte, Skype included a flyer in the package giving a web link... Read more

25 July, 2007 by Peter Judge

Missing GPL detail may make it harder to enforce

...have to fix their laws to do the right thing," Stallman added. Harald Welte, the founder of GPL-violations.org, said in an interview in... Read more

1 June, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

BitKeeper: No holds barred open source infighting

...have disagreed with Torvald's decision to use Bitkeeper from the beginning. Harald Welte, who maintains the packet filter subsystem in the Linux kernel and... Read more

20 April, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Fortinet accused of GPL violation

...vendor Fortinet has been accused of misusing software licensed under the GPL. Harald Welte, a Linux kernel developer who runs gpl-violations.org, said on... Read more

14 April, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Companies accused of violating the GPL

...accused of misusing software licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Harald Welte, a Linux kernel developer who runs gpl-violations.org, personally handed... Read more

16 March, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Linux kernel to include IPv6 firewall

...the headers of individual packets -- as is done in stateless packet filtering. Harald Welte, a developer on the Netfilter project and maintainer of the packet... Read more

21 February, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

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