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73 >9. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</A
76 > Copyright © 2001, 2002 by Privoxy Developers <TT
79 HREF="mailto:developers@privoxy.org"
80 >developers@privoxy.org</A
84 > Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders
85 and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <I
102 > is free software; you can
103 redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
108 >, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.</P
110 > This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
111 ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
112 FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
115 >GNU General Public License</I
118 more details, which is available from the Free Software Foundation, Inc, 59
119 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.</P
121 > You should have received a copy of the <A
122 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"
126 >GNU General Public License</I
129 along with this program; if not, write to the <P
131 > Free Software<br>
132 Foundation, Inc. <SPAN
134 >59 Temple Place</SPAN
135 > - Suite 330<br>
161 > In the beginning, there was the
163 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"
167 >Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
170 by Anonymous Coders and <A
171 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/"
175 >. It saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
176 web advertising and user tracking.</P
178 > But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for
179 forcing users to consume ads, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
180 for spying on them, kept evolving. Unfortunately, the <SPAN
184 > did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
185 (and is) the last official
187 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release"
192 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com"
194 >Junkbusters Corporation</A
196 Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
198 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"
201 >, which allowed further
202 development by others.</P
204 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
206 HREF="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/"
208 >improved version of the
210 >, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
211 It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first
212 version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the
213 original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support,
214 flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release
215 from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.</P
219 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
223 picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
224 and then reassembled it, adding many
226 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
232 > The result of this is <SPAN
236 stable release, 3.0, is due late summer or early fall 2002.
280 >Contacting the developers, Bug Reporting and Feature Requests</TD