Defender Of The Linux Faith
News Earlier this week, open source developer Harald Welte personally handed over warning letters to 13 technology companies at the CeBIT technology show in Hannover, Germany, including telecoms giant Motorola and PC manufacturer Acer.
[March 17, 2005, 12:35]
Fortinet Settles GPL Violation Suit
News Earlier this month, gpl-violations.org founder Harald Welte obtained a court injunction against Fortinet, banning the company from distributing its products until it complied with the conditions of the GPL.
[April 26, 2005, 12:00]
Companies Accused Of Violating The GPL
News Harald Welte, a Linux kernel developer who runs gpl-violations.org, personally handed over warning letters to 13 technology companies at CeBIT this week, including telecoms giant Motorola and PC manufacturer Acer.
[March 16, 2005, 15:45]
Fortinet Accused Of GPL Violation
News Harald Welte, a Linux kernel developer who runs gpl-violations.org, said on Thursday that he has obtained a preliminary injunction against Fortinet, banning them from distributing their products until they comply with the conditions of the GPL.
[April 14, 2005, 17:10]
How Important Is GPL Enforcement?
Blog It has now taken three companies to court for not obeying the GPL 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, and make source code available to their...
[November 22, 2007, 13:34]
German Court Convicts Skype Of GPL Breach
News In response to legal action 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 to the source code, but it was still not strictly in compliance with GPLv2...
[July 25, 2007, 16:04]
Linux Kernel To Include IPv6 Firewall
News Harald Welte, a developer on the Netfilter project and maintainer of the packet filter subsystem in the Linux kernel, said last week that a considerable amount of work went into adding IPv6 functionality, as parts of the code needed to be...
[February 21, 2005, 14:10]
Skype Agrees To Obey GPL
News This was thrown out by the appeals court and Skype 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 twice that, if it was to judge about...
[May 9, 2008, 14:36]
Missing GPL Detail May Make It Harder To Enforce
News Harald Welte, the founder of GPL-violations.org, said in an interview in March that he is able to take legal action against companies that have violated the GPL as he is the author of the GPL-licensed software that companies have misappropriated.
[June 1, 2005, 15:35]
