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76 NAME="COPYRIGHT">9. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</H1
78 > Copyright © 2001, 2002 by Privoxy Developers <TT
81 HREF="mailto:developers@privoxy.org"
82 >developers@privoxy.org</A
86 > Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders
87 and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <I
97 NAME="AEN1156">9.1. License</H2
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
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121 > You should have received a copy of the <A
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129 along with this program; if not, write to the <P
131 > Free Software<br>
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157 NAME="AEN1172">9.2. History</H2
159 > In the beginning, there was the
161 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"
165 >Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
168 by Anonymous Coders and <A
169 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/"
173 >. It saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
174 web advertising and user tracking.</P
176 > But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for
177 forcing users to consume ads, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
178 for spying on them, kept evolving. Unfortunately, the <SPAN
182 > did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
183 (and is) the last official
185 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release"
190 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com"
192 >Junkbusters Corporation</A
194 Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
196 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"
199 >, which allowed further
200 development by others.</P
202 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
204 HREF="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/"
206 >improved version of the
208 >, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
209 It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first
210 version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the
211 original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support,
212 flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release
213 from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.</P
217 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
221 picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
222 and then reassembled it, adding many
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230 > The result of this is <SPAN
234 stable release, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
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