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76 ><A
77 NAME="COPYRIGHT">12. <SPAN
78 CLASS="APPLICATION"
79 >Privoxy</SPAN
80 > Copyright, License and History</H1
81 ><P
82 > Copyright © 2001, 2002 by Privoxy Developers <TT
83 CLASS="EMAIL"
84 >&#60;<A
85 HREF="mailto:developers@privoxy.org"
86 >developers@privoxy.org</A
87 >&#62;</TT
88 ></P
89 ><P
90 > Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders
91  and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <I
92 CLASS="CITETITLE"
93 >GNU General Public
94  License</I
95 >.</P
96 ><DIV
97 CLASS="SECT2"
98 ><H2
99 CLASS="SECT2"
100 ><A
101 NAME="AEN3220">12.1. License</H2
102 ><P
103 > <SPAN
104 CLASS="APPLICATION"
105 >Privoxy</SPAN
106 > is free software; you can
107  redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the 
108  <I
109 CLASS="CITETITLE"
110 >GNU General Public
111  License</I
112 >, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.</P
113 ><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 
117  <I
118 CLASS="CITETITLE"
119 >GNU General Public License</I
120 > for
121  
122  more details, which is available from the Free Software Foundation, Inc, 59
123  Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.</P
124 ><P
125 > You should have received a copy of the <A
126 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"
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128 > <I
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130 >GNU General Public License</I
131 ></A
132 >
133  along with this program; if not, write to the <P
134 CLASS="ADDRESS"
135 >&nbsp;Free&nbsp;Software<br>
136 &nbsp;Foundation,&nbsp;Inc.&nbsp;<SPAN
137 CLASS="STREET"
138 >59 Temple Place</SPAN
139 >&nbsp;-&nbsp;Suite&nbsp;330<br>
140 &nbsp;<SPAN
141 CLASS="CITY"
142 >Boston</SPAN
143 >,&nbsp;<SPAN
144 CLASS="STATE"
145 >MA</SPAN
146 >&nbsp;<SPAN
147 CLASS="POSTCODE"
148 >02111-1307</SPAN
149 ><br>
150 &nbsp;<SPAN
151 CLASS="COUNTRY"
152 >USA</SPAN
153 >&nbsp;</P
154 ></P
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158 ><H2
159 CLASS="SECT2"
160 ><A
161 NAME="HISTORY">12.2. History</H2
162 ><P
163 > In the beginning, there was the
164  <A
165 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"
166 TARGET="_top"
167 ><SPAN
168 CLASS="APPLICATION"
169 >Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
170 ></A
171 >, 
172  by Anonymous Coders and <A
173 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/"
174 TARGET="_top"
175 >Junkbusters
176  Corporation</A
177 >. It saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
178  web advertising and user tracking.</P
179 ><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
183 CLASS="APPLICATION"
184 >Internet
185  Junkbuster</SPAN
186 > did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was 
187  (and is) the last official
188  <A
189 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release"
190 TARGET="_top"
191 >release</A
192 >
193  available from <A
194 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com"
195 TARGET="_top"
196 >Junkbusters Corporation</A
197 >.
198  Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
199  <A
200 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"
201 TARGET="_top"
202 > GPL</A
203 >, which allowed further
204  development by others.</P
205 ><P
206 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
207  <A
208 HREF="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/"
209 TARGET="_top"
210 >improved version of the
211  software</A
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
218 ><P
219 > Then, some
220  <A
221 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
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223 >developers</A
224 >
225  picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
226  and then reassembled it, adding many
227  <A
228 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
229 TARGET="_top"
230 >new
231  features</A
232 > along the way.</P
233 ><P
234 > The result of this is <SPAN
235 CLASS="APPLICATION"
236 >Privoxy</SPAN
237 >, whose first
238  stable release, 3.0, was released August, 2002. 
239  </P
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245 ><A
246 NAME="AUTHORS">12.3. Authors</H2
247 ><P
248 > Current Project Developers:</P
249 ><P
250 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
251 >&nbsp;Jon&nbsp;Foster<br>
252 &nbsp;Andreas&nbsp;Oesterhelt<br>
253 &nbsp;Stefan&nbsp;Waldherr<br>
254 &nbsp;<br>
255 &nbsp;Thomas&nbsp;Steudten<br>
256 &nbsp;Rodney&nbsp;Stromlund</P
257 ><P
258 > Current Project Contributors:</P
259 ><P
260 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
261 >&nbsp;Rodrigo&nbsp;Barbosa&nbsp;(RPM&nbsp;specfiles)<br>
262 &nbsp;Moritz&nbsp;Barsnick<br>
263 &nbsp;Hal&nbsp;Burgiss&nbsp;(docs)<br>
264 &nbsp;Karsten&nbsp;Hopp&nbsp;(Red&nbsp;Hat)<br>
265 &nbsp;Alexander&nbsp;Lazic<br>
266 &nbsp;Gábor&nbsp;Lipták<br>
267 &nbsp;Guy<br>
268 &nbsp;Haroon&nbsp;Rafique<br>
269 &nbsp;Roland&nbsp;Rosenfeld&nbsp;(Debian)<br>
270 &nbsp;Georg&nbsp;Sauthoff&nbsp;(Gentoo)<br>
271 &nbsp;David&nbsp;Schmidt&nbsp;(OS/2,&nbsp;Mac&nbsp;OSX&nbsp;ports)<br>
272 &nbsp;Joerg&nbsp;Strohmayer&nbsp;(Amiga)<br>
273 &nbsp;Sarantis&nbsp;Paskalis</P
274 ><P
275 > Based in part on code originally developed by:</P
276 ><P
277 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
278 >&nbsp;Junkbusters&nbsp;Corp.<br>
279 &nbsp;Anonymous&nbsp;Coders</P
280 ><P
281 > Thanks to the many people who have tested Privoxy, reported bugs, or made
282  suggestions. These include (in alphabetical order):</P
283 ><P
284 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
285 >&nbsp;Ken&nbsp;Arromdee<br>
286 &nbsp;Devin&nbsp;Bayer<br>
287 &nbsp;Reiner&nbsp;Buehl<br>
288 &nbsp;Andrew&nbsp;J.&nbsp;Caines<br>
289 &nbsp;Clifford&nbsp;Caoile<br>
290 &nbsp;Michael&nbsp;T.&nbsp;Davis<br>
291 &nbsp;Peter&nbsp;E<br>
292 &nbsp;Aaron&nbsp;Hamid<br>
293 &nbsp;Magnus&nbsp;Holmgren<br>
294 &nbsp;Daniel&nbsp;Leite<br>
295 &nbsp;Paul&nbsp;Lieverse<br>
296 &nbsp;David&nbsp;Mediavilla&nbsp;<br>
297 &nbsp;Roberto&nbsp;Ragusa<br>
298 &nbsp;Maynard&nbsp;Riley<br>
299 &nbsp;Bart&nbsp;Schelstraete<br>
300 &nbsp;Darren&nbsp;Wiebe<br>
301 &nbsp;Jamie&nbsp;Zawinski</P
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