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84 > Copyright, License and History</H1
86 > Copyright © 2001 - 2006 by Privoxy Developers <TT
89 HREF="mailto:ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net"
90 >ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net</A
94 > Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders
95 and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <I
112 > is free software; you can
113 redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
118 >, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.</P
120 > This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
121 ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
122 FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
125 >GNU General Public License</I
128 more details, which is available from the Free Software Foundation, Inc, 59
129 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.</P
131 > You should have received a copy of the <A
132 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"
136 >GNU General Public License</I
139 along with this program; if not, write to the <P
141 > Free Software<br>
142 Foundation, Inc. <SPAN
144 >59 Temple Place</SPAN
145 > - Suite 330<br>
171 > Along time ago, there was the
173 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"
177 >Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
180 by Anonymous Coders and <A
181 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/"
185 >. This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
186 web advertising and user tracking.</P
188 > But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for
189 forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
190 for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the <SPAN
194 > did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
195 (and is) the last official
197 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release"
202 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com"
204 >Junkbusters Corporation</A
206 Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
208 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"
211 >, which allowed further
212 development by others.</P
214 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
216 HREF="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/"
218 >improved version of the
220 >, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
221 It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first
222 version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the
223 original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support,
224 flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release
225 from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.</P
229 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
233 picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
234 and then reassembled it, adding many
236 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
242 > The result of this is <SPAN
246 stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
258 >Current Developement Team:</P
260 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
261 > Fabian Keil<br>
262 David Schmidt<br>
264 Current Contributors:<br>
266 Johny Agotnes <br>
267 Moritz Barsnick<br>
268 Hal Burgiss<br>
269 Mattes Dolak <br>
270 Roland Rosenfeld<br> </P
272 > Former Project Developers and Contributors:</P
274 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
276 Rodrigo Barbosa<br>
277 Brian Dessent<br>
278 Jon Foster<br>
279 Karsten Hopp<br>
280 Alexander Lazic<br>
281 Daniel Leite<br>
282 Gábor Lipták<br>
283 Adam Lock<br>
284 Guy Laroche<br>
285 Andreas Oesterhelt<br>
286 Haroon Rafique<br>
287 Georg Sauthoff<br>
288 Thomas Steudten<br>
289 Joerg Strohmayer<br>
290 Rodney Stromlund<br>
291 Sviatoslav Sviridov<br>
292 Sarantis Paskalis<br>
293 Stefan Waldherr</P
295 > Based in part on code originally developed by:</P
297 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
298 > Junkbusters Corp.<br>
299 Anonymous Coders</P
301 > Thanks to the many people who have tested Privoxy, reported bugs, or made
302 suggestions. These include (in alphabetical order):</P
304 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
305 > Ken Arromdee<br>
306 Devin Bayer<br>
307 Reiner Buehl<br>
308 Andrew J. Caines<br>
309 Clifford Caoile<br>
310 Michael T. Davis<br>
311 Brian Dessent<br>
312 Peter E<br>
313 Aaron Hamid<br>
314 Magnus Holmgren<br>
315 Don Libes <br>
316 Paul Lieverse<br>
317 David Mediavilla <br>
318 Oliver Stoeneberg<br>
319 Roberto Ragusa<br>
320 Maynard Riley<br>
321 Bart Schelstraete<br>
322 Darren Wiebe<br>
323 Jamie Zawinski</P
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