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81 > Copyright, License and History</A
84 > Copyright © 2001 - 2004 by Privoxy Developers <CODE
87 HREF="mailto:developers@privoxy.org"
88 >developers@privoxy.org</A
92 > Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders
93 and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <I
110 > is free software; you can
111 redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
116 >, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.</P
118 > This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
119 ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
120 FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
123 >GNU General Public License</I
126 more details, which is available from the Free Software Foundation, Inc, 59
127 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.</P
129 > You should have received a copy of the <A
130 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"
134 >GNU General Public License</I
137 along with this program; if not, write to the <P
139 > Free Software<br>
140 Foundation, Inc. <SPAN
142 >59 Temple Place</SPAN
143 > - Suite 330<br>
169 > In the beginning, there was the
171 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"
175 >Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
178 by Anonymous Coders and <A
179 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/"
183 >. It saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
184 web advertising and user tracking.</P
186 > But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for
187 forcing users to consume ads, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
188 for spying on them, kept evolving. Unfortunately, the <SPAN
192 > did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
193 (and is) the last official
195 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release"
200 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com"
202 >Junkbusters Corporation</A
204 Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
206 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"
209 >, which allowed further
210 development by others.</P
212 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
214 HREF="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/"
216 >improved version of the
218 >, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
219 It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first
220 version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the
221 original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support,
222 flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release
223 from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.</P
227 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
231 picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
232 and then reassembled it, adding many
234 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
240 > The result of this is <SPAN
244 stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
256 > Current Developement Team:</P
258 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
259 > Hal Burgiss (docs)<br>
260 Andreas Oesterhelt<br>
261 David Schmidt (OS/2, Mac OSX ports)<br>
264 > Current and Former Project Contributors:</P
266 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
267 > Johny Agotnes <br>
268 Rodrigo Barbosa (RPM specfiles)<br>
269 Moritz Barsnick<br>
270 Brian Dessent<br>
271 Mattes Dolak <br>
272 Jon Foster<br>
273 Karsten Hopp (Red Hat)<br>
274 Alexander Lazic<br>
275 Daniel Leite<br>
276 Gábor Lipták<br>
277 Adam Lock (Win32)<br>
278 Guy Laroche<br>
279 Haroon Rafique<br>
280 Roland Rosenfeld (Debian)<br>
281 Georg Sauthoff (Gentoo)<br>
282 Thomas Steudten<br>
283 Joerg Strohmayer (Amiga)<br>
284 Rodney Stromlund<br>
285 Sviatoslav Sviridov<br>
286 Sarantis Paskalis<br>
287 Stefan Waldherr</P
289 > Based in part on code originally developed by:</P
291 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
292 > Junkbusters Corp.<br>
293 Anonymous Coders</P
295 > Thanks to the many people who have tested Privoxy, reported bugs, or made
296 suggestions. These include (in alphabetical order):</P
298 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
299 > Ken Arromdee<br>
300 Devin Bayer<br>
301 Reiner Buehl<br>
302 Andrew J. Caines<br>
303 Clifford Caoile<br>
304 Michael T. Davis<br>
305 Brian Dessent<br>
306 Peter E<br>
307 Aaron Hamid<br>
308 Magnus Holmgren<br>
309 Don Libes <br>
310 Paul Lieverse<br>
311 David Mediavilla <br>
312 Oliver Stoeneberg<br>
313 Roberto Ragusa<br>
314 Maynard Riley<br>
315 Bart Schelstraete<br>
316 Darren Wiebe<br>
317 Jamie Zawinski</P
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