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69 NAME="COPYRIGHT">7. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</H1
70 ><P
71 > Copyright © 2001, 2002 by Privoxy Developers <TT
72 CLASS="EMAIL"
73 >&#60;<A
74 HREF="mailto:developers@privoxy.org"
75 >developers@privoxy.org</A
76 >&#62;</TT
77 ></P
78 ><P
79 > Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders
80  and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <I
81 CLASS="CITETITLE"
82 >GNU General Public
83  License</I
84 >.</P
85 ><P
86 >   Portions of this document are <SPAN
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88 >"borrowed"</SPAN
89 > from the original
90    <SPAN
91 CLASS="APPLICATION"
92 >Junkbuster</SPAN
93 > (tm) FAQ, and modified as 
94    appropriate for <SPAN
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96 >Privoxy</SPAN
97 >.
98   </P
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103 ><A
104 NAME="AEN891">7.1. License</H2
105 ><P
106 > <SPAN
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108 >Privoxy</SPAN
109 > is free software; you can
110  redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the 
111  <I
112 CLASS="CITETITLE"
113 >GNU General Public
114  License</I
115 >, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.</P
116 ><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 
120  <I
121 CLASS="CITETITLE"
122 >GNU General Public License</I
123 > for
124  
125  more details, which is available from the Free Software Foundation, Inc, 59
126  Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.</P
127 ><P
128 > You should have received a copy of the <A
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131 > <I
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133 >GNU General Public License</I
134 ></A
135 >
136  along with this program; if not, write to the <P
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138 >&nbsp;Free&nbsp;Software<br>
139 &nbsp;Foundation,&nbsp;Inc.&nbsp;<SPAN
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141 >59 Temple Place</SPAN
142 >&nbsp;-&nbsp;Suite&nbsp;330<br>
143 &nbsp;<SPAN
144 CLASS="CITY"
145 >Boston</SPAN
146 >,&nbsp;<SPAN
147 CLASS="STATE"
148 >MA</SPAN
149 >&nbsp;<SPAN
150 CLASS="POSTCODE"
151 >02111-1307</SPAN
152 ><br>
153 &nbsp;<SPAN
154 CLASS="COUNTRY"
155 >USA</SPAN
156 >&nbsp;</P
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164 NAME="AEN907">7.2. History</H2
165 ><P
166 > In the beginning, there was the
167  <A
168 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"
169 TARGET="_top"
170 ><SPAN
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172 >Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
173 ></A
174 >, 
175  by Anonymous Coders and <A
176 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/"
177 TARGET="_top"
178 >Junkbusters
179  Corporation</A
180 >. It saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
181  web advertising and user tracking.</P
182 ><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
186 CLASS="APPLICATION"
187 >Internet
188  Junkbuster</SPAN
189 > did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was 
190  (and is) the last official
191  <A
192 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release"
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194 >release</A
195 >
196  available from <A
197 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com"
198 TARGET="_top"
199 >Junkbusters Corporation</A
200 >.
201  Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
202  <A
203 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"
204 TARGET="_top"
205 > GPL</A
206 >, which allowed further
207  development by others.</P
208 ><P
209 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
210  <A
211 HREF="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/"
212 TARGET="_top"
213 >improved version of the
214  software</A
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
221 ><P
222 > Then, some
223  <A
224 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
225 TARGET="_top"
226 >developers</A
227 >
228  picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
229  and then reassembled it, adding many
230  <A
231 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
232 TARGET="_top"
233 >new
234  features</A
235 > along the way.</P
236 ><P
237 > The result of this is <SPAN
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239 >Privoxy</SPAN
240 >, whose first
241  stable release, 3.0, was released August, 2002. 
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