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69 NAME="COPYRIGHT">7. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</H1
71 > Copyright © 2001, 2002 by Privoxy Developers <TT
74 HREF="mailto:developers@privoxy.org"
75 >developers@privoxy.org</A
79 > Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders
80 and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <I
86 > Portions of this document are <SPAN
93 > (tm) FAQ, and modified as
104 NAME="AEN891">7.1. License</H2
109 > is free software; you can
110 redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
115 >, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.</P
117 > This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
118 ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
119 FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
122 >GNU General Public License</I
125 more details, which is available from the Free Software Foundation, Inc, 59
126 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.</P
128 > You should have received a copy of the <A
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133 >GNU General Public License</I
136 along with this program; if not, write to the <P
138 > Free Software<br>
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142 > - Suite 330<br>
164 NAME="AEN907">7.2. History</H2
166 > In the beginning, there was the
168 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"
172 >Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
175 by Anonymous Coders and <A
176 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/"
180 >. It saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
181 web advertising and user tracking.</P
183 > But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for
184 forcing users to consume ads, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
185 for spying on them, kept evolving. Unfortunately, the <SPAN
189 > did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
190 (and is) the last official
192 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release"
197 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com"
199 >Junkbusters Corporation</A
201 Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
203 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"
206 >, which allowed further
207 development by others.</P
209 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
211 HREF="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/"
213 >improved version of the
215 >, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
216 It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first
217 version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the
218 original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support,
219 flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release
220 from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.</P
224 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
228 picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
229 and then reassembled it, adding many
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237 > The result of this is <SPAN
241 stable release, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
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