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67 >7. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</A
70 > Copyright © 2001, 2002 by Privoxy Developers <TT
73 HREF="mailto:developers@privoxy.org"
74 >developers@privoxy.org</A
78 > Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders
79 and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <I
85 > Portions of this document are <SPAN
92 > (tm) FAQ, and modified as
110 > is free software; you can
111 redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
116 >, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.</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
123 >GNU General Public License</I
126 more details, which is available from the Free Software Foundation, Inc, 59
127 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.</P
129 > You should have received a copy of the <A
130 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"
134 >GNU General Public License</I
137 along with this program; if not, write to the <P
139 > Free Software<br>
140 Foundation, Inc. <SPAN
142 >59 Temple Place</SPAN
143 > - Suite 330<br>
169 > In the beginning, there was the
171 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"
175 >Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
178 by Anonymous Coders and <A
179 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/"
183 >. It saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
184 web advertising and user tracking.</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
192 > did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
193 (and is) the last official
195 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release"
200 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com"
202 >Junkbusters Corporation</A
204 Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
206 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"
209 >, which allowed further
210 development by others.</P
212 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
214 HREF="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/"
216 >improved version of the
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
227 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
231 picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
232 and then reassembled it, adding many
234 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
240 > The result of this is <SPAN
244 stable release, 3.0, is due late summer or early fall 2002.
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