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  69 NAME="COPYRIGHT">7. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</H1
  70 ><P
  71 > Copyright © 2001, 2002 by Privoxy Developers <TT
  72 CLASS="EMAIL"
  73 >&#60;<A
  74 HREF="mailto:developers@privoxy.org"
  75 >developers@privoxy.org</A
  76 >&#62;</TT
  77 ></P
  78 ><P
  79 > Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders
  80  and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <I
  81 CLASS="CITETITLE"
  82 >GNU General Public
  83  License</I
  84 >.</P
  85 ><P
  86 >   Portions of this document are <SPAN
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  88 >"borrowed"</SPAN
  89 > from the original
  90    <SPAN
  91 CLASS="APPLICATION"
  92 >Junkbuster</SPAN
  93 > (tm) FAQ, and modified as
  94    appropriate for <SPAN
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  96 >Privoxy</SPAN
  97 >.
  98   </P
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 100 CLASS="SECT2"
 101 ><H2
 102 CLASS="SECT2"
 103 ><A
 104 NAME="AEN790">7.1. License</H2
 105 ><P
 106 > <SPAN
 107 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 108 >Privoxy</SPAN
 109 > is free software; you can
 110  redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
 111  <I
 112 CLASS="CITETITLE"
 113 >GNU General Public
 114  License</I
 115 >, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.</P
 116 ><P
 117 > This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
 118  ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
 119  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 120  <I
 121 CLASS="CITETITLE"
 122 >GNU General Public License</I
 123 > for
 124
 125  more details, which is available from the Free Software Foundation, Inc, 59
 126  Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.</P
 127 ><P
 128 > You should have received a copy of the <A
 129 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"
 130 TARGET="_top"
 131 > <I
 132 CLASS="CITETITLE"
 133 >GNU General Public License</I
 134 ></A
 135 >
 136  along with this program; if not, write to the <P
 137 CLASS="ADDRESS"
 138 >&nbsp;Free&nbsp;Software<br>
 139 &nbsp;Foundation,&nbsp;Inc.&nbsp;<SPAN
 140 CLASS="STREET"
 141 >59 Temple Place</SPAN
 142 >&nbsp;-&nbsp;Suite&nbsp;330<br>
 143 &nbsp;<SPAN
 144 CLASS="CITY"
 145 >Boston</SPAN
 146 >,&nbsp;<SPAN
 147 CLASS="STATE"
 148 >MA</SPAN
 149 >&nbsp;<SPAN
 150 CLASS="POSTCODE"
 151 >02111-1307</SPAN
 152 ><br>
 153 &nbsp;<SPAN
 154 CLASS="COUNTRY"
 155 >USA</SPAN
 156 >&nbsp;</P
 157 ></P
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 161 ><H2
 162 CLASS="SECT2"
 163 ><A
 164 NAME="AEN806">7.2. History</H2
 165 ><P
 166 > In the beginning, there was the
 167  <A
 168 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"
 169 TARGET="_top"
 170 ><SPAN
 171 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 172 >Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
 173 ></A
 174 >,
 175  by Anonymous Coders and <A
 176 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/"
 177 TARGET="_top"
 178 >Junkbusters
 179  Corporation</A
 180 >. It saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
 181  web advertising and user tracking.</P
 182 ><P
 183 > But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for
 184  forcing  users to consume ads, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
 185  for spying on them, kept evolving. Unfortunately, the <SPAN
 186 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 187 >Internet
 188  Junkbuster</SPAN
 189 > did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
 190  (and is) the last official
 191  <A
 192 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release"
 193 TARGET="_top"
 194 >release</A
 195 >
 196  available from <A
 197 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com"
 198 TARGET="_top"
 199 >Junkbusters Corporation</A
 200 >.
 201  Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
 202  <A
 203 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"
 204 TARGET="_top"
 205 > GPL</A
 206 >, which allowed further
 207  development by others.</P
 208 ><P
 209 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
 210  <A
 211 HREF="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/"
 212 TARGET="_top"
 213 >improved version of the
 214  software</A
 215 >, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
 216  It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first
 217  version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the
 218  original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support,
 219  flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release
 220  from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.</P
 221 ><P
 222 > Then, some
 223  <A
 224 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
 225 TARGET="_top"
 226 >developers</A
 227 >
 228  picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
 229  and then reassembled it, adding many
 230  <A
 231 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
 232 TARGET="_top"
 233 >new
 234  features</A
 235 > along the way.</P
 236 ><P
 237 > The result of this is <SPAN
 238 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 239 >Privoxy</SPAN
 240 >, whose first
 241  stable release, 3.0, is due in June 2002.</P
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