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  65 ><A
  66 NAME="COPYRIGHT"
  67 >7. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</A
  68 ></H1
  69 ><P
  70 > Copyright © 2001, 2002 by Privoxy Developers <TT
  71 CLASS="EMAIL"
  72 >&#60;<A
  73 HREF="mailto:developers@privoxy.org"
  74 >developers@privoxy.org</A
  75 >&#62;</TT
  76 ></P
  77 ><P
  78 > Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders
  79  and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <I
  80 CLASS="CITETITLE"
  81 >GNU General Public
  82  License</I
  83 >.</P
  84 ><P
  85 >   Portions of this document are <SPAN
  86 CLASS="QUOTE"
  87 >"borrowed"</SPAN
  88 > from the original
  89    <SPAN
  90 CLASS="APPLICATION"
  91 >Junkbuster</SPAN
  92 > (tm) FAQ, and modified as
  93    appropriate for <SPAN
  94 CLASS="APPLICATION"
  95 >Privoxy</SPAN
  96 >.
  97   </P
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  99 CLASS="SECT2"
 100 ><H2
 101 CLASS="SECT2"
 102 ><A
 103 NAME="AEN841"
 104 >7.1. 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"
 131 TARGET="_top"
 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
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 162 ><H2
 163 CLASS="SECT2"
 164 ><A
 165 NAME="AEN857"
 166 >7.2. 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 release, 3.0, is due late summer or early fall 2002.
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