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76 ><A
77 NAME="COPYRIGHT"
78 >12. <SPAN
79 CLASS="APPLICATION"
80 >Privoxy</SPAN
81 > Copyright, License and History</A
82 ></H1
83 ><P
84 > Copyright © 2001 - 2004 by Privoxy Developers <CODE
85 CLASS="EMAIL"
86 >&#60;<A
87 HREF="mailto:developers@privoxy.org"
88 >developers@privoxy.org</A
89 >&#62;</CODE
90 ></P
91 ><P
92 > Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders
93  and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <I
94 CLASS="CITETITLE"
95 >GNU General Public
96  License</I
97 >.</P
98 ><DIV
99 CLASS="SECT2"
100 ><H2
101 CLASS="SECT2"
102 ><A
103 NAME="AEN3561"
104 >12.1. License</A
105 ></H2
106 ><P
107 > <SPAN
108 CLASS="APPLICATION"
109 >Privoxy</SPAN
110 > is free software; you can
111  redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the 
112  <I
113 CLASS="CITETITLE"
114 >GNU General Public
115  License</I
116 >, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.</P
117 ><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 
121  <I
122 CLASS="CITETITLE"
123 >GNU General Public License</I
124 > for
125  
126  more details, which is available from the Free Software Foundation, Inc, 59
127  Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.</P
128 ><P
129 > You should have received a copy of the <A
130 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"
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132 > <I
133 CLASS="CITETITLE"
134 >GNU General Public License</I
135 ></A
136 >
137  along with this program; if not, write to the <P
138 CLASS="ADDRESS"
139 >&nbsp;Free&nbsp;Software<br>
140 &nbsp;Foundation,&nbsp;Inc.&nbsp;<SPAN
141 CLASS="STREET"
142 >59 Temple Place</SPAN
143 >&nbsp;-&nbsp;Suite&nbsp;330<br>
144 &nbsp;<SPAN
145 CLASS="CITY"
146 >Boston</SPAN
147 >,&nbsp;<SPAN
148 CLASS="STATE"
149 >MA</SPAN
150 >&nbsp;<SPAN
151 CLASS="POSTCODE"
152 >02111-1307</SPAN
153 ><br>
154 &nbsp;<SPAN
155 CLASS="COUNTRY"
156 >USA</SPAN
157 >&nbsp;</P
158 ></P
159 ></DIV
160 ><DIV
161 CLASS="SECT2"
162 ><H2
163 CLASS="SECT2"
164 ><A
165 NAME="HISTORY"
166 >12.2. History</A
167 ></H2
168 ><P
169 > In the beginning, there was the
170  <A
171 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"
172 TARGET="_top"
173 ><SPAN
174 CLASS="APPLICATION"
175 >Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
176 ></A
177 >, 
178  by Anonymous Coders and <A
179 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/"
180 TARGET="_top"
181 >Junkbusters
182  Corporation</A
183 >. It saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
184  web advertising and user tracking.</P
185 ><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
189 CLASS="APPLICATION"
190 >Internet
191  Junkbuster</SPAN
192 > did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was 
193  (and is) the last official
194  <A
195 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release"
196 TARGET="_top"
197 >release</A
198 >
199  available from <A
200 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com"
201 TARGET="_top"
202 >Junkbusters Corporation</A
203 >.
204  Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
205  <A
206 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"
207 TARGET="_top"
208 > GPL</A
209 >, which allowed further
210  development by others.</P
211 ><P
212 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
213  <A
214 HREF="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/"
215 TARGET="_top"
216 >improved version of the
217  software</A
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
224 ><P
225 > Then, some
226  <A
227 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
228 TARGET="_top"
229 >developers</A
230 >
231  picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
232  and then reassembled it, adding many
233  <A
234 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
235 TARGET="_top"
236 >new
237  features</A
238 > along the way.</P
239 ><P
240 > The result of this is <SPAN
241 CLASS="APPLICATION"
242 >Privoxy</SPAN
243 >, whose first
244  stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002. 
245  </P
246 ></DIV
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251 ><A
252 NAME="AUTHORS"
253 >12.3. Authors</A
254 ></H2
255 ><P
256 > Current Developement Team:</P
257 ><P
258 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
259 >&nbsp;Hal&nbsp;Burgiss&nbsp;(docs)<br>
260 &nbsp;Andreas&nbsp;Oesterhelt<br>
261 &nbsp;David&nbsp;Schmidt&nbsp;(OS/2,&nbsp;Mac&nbsp;OSX&nbsp;ports)<br>
262 &nbsp;<br>&#13;</P
263 ><P
264 > Current and Former Project Contributors:</P
265 ><P
266 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
267 >&nbsp;Johny&nbsp;Agotnes&nbsp;<br>
268 &nbsp;Rodrigo&nbsp;Barbosa&nbsp;(RPM&nbsp;specfiles)<br>
269 &nbsp;Moritz&nbsp;Barsnick<br>
270 &nbsp;Brian&nbsp;Dessent<br>
271 &nbsp;Mattes&nbsp;Dolak&nbsp;<br>
272 &nbsp;Jon&nbsp;Foster<br>
273 &nbsp;Karsten&nbsp;Hopp&nbsp;(Red&nbsp;Hat)<br>
274 &nbsp;Alexander&nbsp;Lazic<br>
275 &nbsp;Daniel&nbsp;Leite<br>
276 &nbsp;Gábor&nbsp;Lipták<br>
277 &nbsp;Adam&nbsp;Lock&nbsp;(Win32)<br>
278 &nbsp;Guy&nbsp;Laroche<br>
279 &nbsp;Haroon&nbsp;Rafique<br>
280 &nbsp;Roland&nbsp;Rosenfeld&nbsp;(Debian)<br>
281 &nbsp;Georg&nbsp;Sauthoff&nbsp;(Gentoo)<br>
282 &nbsp;Thomas&nbsp;Steudten<br>
283 &nbsp;Joerg&nbsp;Strohmayer&nbsp;(Amiga)<br>
284 &nbsp;Rodney&nbsp;Stromlund<br>
285 &nbsp;Sviatoslav&nbsp;Sviridov<br>
286 &nbsp;Sarantis&nbsp;Paskalis<br>
287 &nbsp;Stefan&nbsp;Waldherr</P
288 ><P
289 > Based in part on code originally developed by:</P
290 ><P
291 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
292 >&nbsp;Junkbusters&nbsp;Corp.<br>
293 &nbsp;Anonymous&nbsp;Coders</P
294 ><P
295 > Thanks to the many people who have tested Privoxy, reported bugs, or made
296  suggestions. These include (in alphabetical order):</P
297 ><P
298 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
299 >&nbsp;Ken&nbsp;Arromdee<br>
300 &nbsp;Devin&nbsp;Bayer<br>
301 &nbsp;Reiner&nbsp;Buehl<br>
302 &nbsp;Andrew&nbsp;J.&nbsp;Caines<br>
303 &nbsp;Clifford&nbsp;Caoile<br>
304 &nbsp;Michael&nbsp;T.&nbsp;Davis<br>
305 &nbsp;Brian&nbsp;Dessent<br>
306 &nbsp;Peter&nbsp;E<br>
307 &nbsp;Aaron&nbsp;Hamid<br>
308 &nbsp;Magnus&nbsp;Holmgren<br>
309 &nbsp;Don&nbsp;Libes&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
310 &nbsp;Paul&nbsp;Lieverse<br>
311 &nbsp;David&nbsp;Mediavilla&nbsp;<br>
312 &nbsp;Oliver&nbsp;Stoeneberg<br>
313 &nbsp;Roberto&nbsp;Ragusa<br>
314 &nbsp;Maynard&nbsp;Riley<br>
315 &nbsp;Bart&nbsp;Schelstraete<br>
316 &nbsp;Darren&nbsp;Wiebe<br>
317 &nbsp;Jamie&nbsp;Zawinski</P
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