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-> Portions of this document are <SPAN
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- <SPAN
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-> A long time ago, there was the
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-><SPAN
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-></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
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->release</A
->
- available from <A
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->Junkbusters Corporation</A
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- Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
- <A
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-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
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->Privoxy</SPAN
->, whose first
- stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
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+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="COPYRIGHT" id="COPYRIGHT">7. Privoxy
+ Copyright, License and History</a></h1>
+ <p>Copyright � 2001-2016 by Privoxy Developers <code class=
+ "EMAIL"><<a href=
+ "mailto:privoxy-devel@lists.privoxy.org">privoxy-devel@lists.privoxy.org</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>
+ <p>Portions of this document are <span class="QUOTE">"borrowed"</span>
+ from the original <span class="APPLICATION">Junkbuster</span> (tm) FAQ,
+ and modified as appropriate for <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>.</p>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN1507" id="AEN1507">7.1. 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><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> 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=
+ "https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#LICENSE" target=
+ "_top"><i class="CITETITLE">license</i></a> for details.</p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN1516" id="AEN1516">7.2. 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=
+ "https://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=
+ "https://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>
+ </div>
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+ </tr>
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+ Bug Reporting and Feature Requests</td>
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