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>7. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</A
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-> Copyright © 2001 - 2004 by Privoxy Developers <CODE
+> Copyright © 2001-2009 by Privoxy Developers <CODE
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><<A
-HREF="mailto:developers@privoxy.org"
->developers@privoxy.org</A
+HREF="mailto:ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net"
+>ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net</A
>></CODE
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><H2
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><A
-NAME="AEN1014"
+NAME="AEN1443"
>7.1. License</A
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><P
redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
<I
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->GNU General Public
- License</I
->, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.</P
+>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
- <I
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->GNU General Public License</I
-> for
-
- more details, which is available from the Free Software Foundation, Inc, 59
- Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.</P
-><P
-> You should have received a copy of the <A
-HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"
+ FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the <A
+HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html"
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> <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
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> Free Software<br>
Foundation, Inc. <SPAN
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->59 Temple Place</SPAN
-> - Suite 330<br>
+>51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor</SPAN
+><br>
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>MA</SPAN
> <SPAN
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->02111-1307</SPAN
+>02110-1301</SPAN
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><H2
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><A
-NAME="AEN1030"
+NAME="AEN1459"
>7.2. History</A
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><P
-> In the beginning, there was the
+> A long time ago, there was the
<A
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>Junkbusters
Corporation</A
->. It saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
+>. 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 users to consume ads, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
- for spying on them, kept evolving. Unfortunately, the <SPAN
+ forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
+ for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>Internet
Junkbuster</SPAN
>.
Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
<A
-HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"
+HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html"
TARGET="_top"
-> GPL</A
->, which allowed further
- development by others.</P
+>GPL</A
+>,
+ which allowed further development by others.</P
><P
-> So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
- <A
-HREF="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/"
-TARGET="_top"
->improved version of the
- software</A
->, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
+> 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,