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77 NAME="COPYRIGHT">12. <SPAN
80 > Copyright, License and History</H1
82 > Copyright © 2001, 2002 by Privoxy Developers <TT
85 HREF="mailto:developers@privoxy.org"
86 >developers@privoxy.org</A
90 > Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders
91 and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <I
101 NAME="AEN3220">12.1. License</H2
106 > is free software; you can
107 redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
112 >, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.</P
114 > This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
115 ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
116 FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
119 >GNU General Public License</I
122 more details, which is available from the Free Software Foundation, Inc, 59
123 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.</P
125 > You should have received a copy of the <A
126 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"
130 >GNU General Public License</I
133 along with this program; if not, write to the <P
135 > Free Software<br>
136 Foundation, Inc. <SPAN
138 >59 Temple Place</SPAN
139 > - Suite 330<br>
161 NAME="HISTORY">12.2. History</H2
163 > In the beginning, there was the
165 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"
169 >Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
172 by Anonymous Coders and <A
173 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/"
177 >. It saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
178 web advertising and user tracking.</P
180 > But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for
181 forcing users to consume ads, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
182 for spying on them, kept evolving. Unfortunately, the <SPAN
186 > did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
187 (and is) the last official
189 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release"
194 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com"
196 >Junkbusters Corporation</A
198 Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
200 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"
203 >, which allowed further
204 development by others.</P
206 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
208 HREF="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/"
210 >improved version of the
212 >, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
213 It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first
214 version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the
215 original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support,
216 flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release
217 from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.</P
221 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
225 picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
226 and then reassembled it, adding many
228 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
234 > The result of this is <SPAN
238 stable release, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
246 NAME="AUTHORS">12.3. Authors</H2
248 > Current Project Developers:</P
250 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
251 > Jon Foster<br>
252 Andreas Oesterhelt<br>
253 Stefan Waldherr<br>
255 Thomas Steudten<br>
256 Rodney Stromlund</P
258 > Current Project Contributors:</P
260 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
261 > Rodrigo Barbosa (RPM specfiles)<br>
262 Moritz Barsnick<br>
263 Hal Burgiss (docs)<br>
264 Karsten Hopp (Red Hat)<br>
265 Alexander Lazic<br>
266 Gábor Lipták<br>
268 Haroon Rafique<br>
269 Roland Rosenfeld (Debian)<br>
270 Georg Sauthoff (Gentoo)<br>
271 David Schmidt (OS/2, Mac OSX ports)<br>
272 Joerg Strohmayer (Amiga)<br>
273 Sarantis Paskalis</P
275 > Based in part on code originally developed by:</P
277 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
278 > Junkbusters Corp.<br>
279 Anonymous Coders</P
281 > Thanks to the many people who have tested Privoxy, reported bugs, or made
282 suggestions. These include (in alphabetical order):</P
284 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
285 > Ken Arromdee<br>
286 Devin Bayer<br>
287 Reiner Buehl<br>
288 Andrew J. Caines<br>
289 Clifford Caoile<br>
290 Michael T. Davis<br>
291 Peter E<br>
292 Aaron Hamid<br>
293 Magnus Holmgren<br>
294 Daniel Leite<br>
295 Paul Lieverse<br>
296 David Mediavilla <br>
297 Roberto Ragusa<br>
298 Maynard Riley<br>
299 Bart Schelstraete<br>
300 Darren Wiebe<br>
301 Jamie Zawinski</P
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