- <div class="SECT1">
- <h1 class="SECT1">
- <a name="COPYRIGHT">12. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</a>
- </h1>
- <p>
- Copyright © 2001-2011 by Privoxy Developers <code class=
- "EMAIL"><<a href=
- "mailto:ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net">ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net</a>></code>
- </p>
- <p>
- Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous
- Coders and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <i class=
- "CITETITLE">GNU General Public License</i>.
- </p>
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2">
- <a name="AEN5383">12.1. License</a>
- </h2>
- <p>
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is free software; you can
- redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the <i class=
- "CITETITLE">GNU General Public License</i>, version 2, as published
- by the Free Software Foundation.
- </p>
- <p>
- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the <a
- href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html"
- target="_top"><i class="CITETITLE">GNU General Public
- License</i></a> for details.
- </p>
- <p>
- You should have received a copy of the <i class="CITETITLE">GNU
- GPL</i> along with this program; if not, write to the
- </p>
- <p class="ADDRESS">
- Free Software<br>
- Foundation, Inc. <span class="STREET">51 Franklin
- Street, Fifth Floor</span><br>
- <span class="CITY">Boston</span>, <span class=
- "STATE">MA</span> <span class="POSTCODE">02110-1301</span><br>
- <span class="COUNTRY">USA</span>
- </p>
- </div>
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2">
- <a name="HISTORY">12.2. History</a>
- </h2>
- <p>
- A long time ago, there was the <a href=
- "http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html" target="_top"><span class=
- "APPLICATION">Internet Junkbuster</span></a>, by Anonymous Coders
- and <a href="http://www.junkbusters.com/" target="_top">Junkbusters
- Corporation</a>. This saved many users a lot of pain in the early
- days of web advertising and user tracking.
- </p>
- <p>
- But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the
- techniques for forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their
- browsing, and for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the
- <span class="APPLICATION">Internet Junkbuster</span> did not.
- Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was (and is) the last official <a
- href="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release" target=
- "_top">release</a> available from <a href=
- "http://www.junkbusters.com" target="_top">Junkbusters
- Corporation</a>. Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU <a
- href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html"
- target="_top">GPL</a>, which allowed further development by others.
- </p>
- <p>
- So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an improved version of the
- software, to which eventually a number of people contributed
- patches. It could already replace banners with a transparent image,
- and had a first version of pop-up killing, but it was still very
- closely based on the original, with all its limitations, such as
- the lack of HTTP/1.1 support, flexible per-site configuration, or
- content modification. The last release from this effort was version
- 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.
- </p>
- <p>
- Then, some <a href=
- "http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS" target=
- "_top">developers</a> picked up the thread, and started turning the
- software inside out, upside down, and then reassembled it, adding
- many <a href=
- "http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
- target="_top">new features</a> along the way.
- </p>
- <p>
- The result of this is <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>,
- whose first stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
- </p>
- </div>
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2">
- <a name="AUTHORS">12.3. Authors</a>
- </h2>
- <p>
- Current Privoxy Team:
- </p>
- <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
- Fabian Keil, lead developer<br>
- David Schmidt, developer<br>
- Hal Burgiss<br>
- Mark Miller<br>
- Gerry Murphy<br>
- Lee Rian<br>
- Roland Rosenfeld
- </p>
- <p>
- Former Privoxy Team Members:
- </p>
- <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
- Johny Agotnes<br>
- Rodrigo Barbosa<br>
- Moritz Barsnick<br>
- Ian Cummings<br>
- Brian Dessent<br>
- Jon Foster<br>
- Karsten Hopp<br>
- Alexander Lazic<br>
- Daniel Leite<br>
- Gábor Lipták<br>
- Adam Lock<br>
- Guy Laroche<br>
- Justin McMurtry<br>
- Andreas Oesterhelt<br>
- Haroon Rafique<br>
- Georg Sauthoff<br>
- Thomas Steudten<br>
- Jörg Strohmayer<br>
- Rodney Stromlund<br>
- Sviatoslav Sviridov<br>
- Sarantis Paskalis<br>
- Stefan Waldherr
- </p>
- <p>
- Thanks to the many people who have tested Privoxy, reported bugs,
- provided patches, made suggestions or contributed in some way.
- These include (in alphabetical order):
- </p>
- <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
- Ken Arromdee<br>
- Devin Bayer<br>
- Havard Berland<br>
- Gergely Bor<br>
- Francois Botha<br>
- Reiner Buehl<br>
- Andrew J. Caines<br>
- Clifford Caoile<br>
- Wan-Teh Chang<br>
- Frédéric Crozat<br>
- Michael T. Davis<br>
- Mattes Dolak<br>
- Matthias Drochner<br>
- Peter E.<br>
- Florian Effenberger<br>
- Markus Elfring<br>
- Dean Gaudet<br>
- Stephen Gildea<br>
- Daniel Griscom<br>
- Felix Gröbert<br>
- Jeff H.<br>
- Aaron Hamid<br>
- Darel Henman<br>
- Magnus Holmgren<br>
- Eric M. Hopper<br>
- Ralf Horstmann<br>
- Stefan Huehner<br>
- Peter Hyman<br>
- Derek Jennings<br>
- Petr Kadlec<br>
- David Laight<br>
- Bert van Leeuwen<br>
- Don Libes<br>
- Paul Lieverse<br>
- Toby Lyward<br>
- Wil Mahan<br>
- Jindrich Makovicka<br>
- Francois Marier<br>
- David Mediavilla<br>
- Raphael Moll<br>
- Amuro Namie<br>
- Adam Piggott<br>
- Petr Písar<br>
- Dan Price<br>
- Roberto Ragusa<br>
- Félix Rauch<br>
- Maynard Riley<br>
- Chung-chieh Shan<br>
- Spinor S.<br>
- Bart Schelstraete<br>
- Oliver Stoeneberg<br>
- Peter Thoenen<br>
- Martin Thomas<br>
- Bobby G. Vinyard<br>
- Jochen Voss<br>
- Glenn Washburn<br>
- Song Weijia<br>
- Jörg Weinmann<br>
- Darren Wiebe<br>
- Anduin Withers<br>
- Oliver Yeoh<br>
- Jamie Zawinski
- </p>
- <p>
- Privoxy is based in part on code originally developed by
- Junkbusters Corp. and Anonymous Coders.
- </p>
- <p>
- Privoxy heavily relies on Philip Hazel's PCRE.
- </p>
- <p>
- The code to filter compressed content makes use of zlib which is
- written by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.
- </p>
- <p>
- On systems that lack snprintf(), Privoxy is using a version written
- by Mark Martinec. On systems that lack strptime(), Privoxy is using
- the one from the GNU C Library written by Ulrich Drepper.
- </p>
- </div>
+
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="HISTORY" id="HISTORY">12.2. History</a></h2>
+
+ <p>A long time ago, there was the <span class="APPLICATION">Internet
+ Junkbuster</span>, by Anonymous Coders and Junkbusters Corporation.
+ This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of web
+ advertising and user tracking.</p>
+
+ <p>But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the
+ techniques for forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their
+ browsing, and for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Internet Junkbuster</span> did not. Version
+ 2.0.2, published in 1998, was the last official release, available from
+ Junkbusters Corporation. Fortunately, it had been released under the
+ GNU <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html"
+ target="_top">GPL</a>, which allowed further development by others.</p>
+
+ <p>So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an improved version of the
+ software, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
+ It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a
+ first version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on
+ the original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1
+ support, flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The
+ last release from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in
+ 2000.</p>
+
+ <p>Then, some <a href=
+ "http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS" target=
+ "_top">developers</a> picked up the thread, and started turning the
+ software inside out, upside down, and then reassembled it, adding many
+ <a href="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
+ target="_top">new features</a> along the way.</p>
+
+ <p>The result of this is <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>,
+ whose first stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.</p>
+
+ <p>As of 2012 the Junkbusters Corporation's website
+ (http://www.junkbusters.com/) has been shut down, but Privoxy is still
+ actively maintained.</p>