| 7. Privoxy Copyright, License and History Copyright © 2001, 2002 by Privoxy Developers Copyright © 2001-2008 by Privoxy Developers Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders @@ -101,7 +106,7 @@ CLASS="SECT2" > 7.1. LicenseGNU General Public License for - more details, which is available from the Free Software Foundation, Inc, 59 - Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. You should have received a copy of the Free Software Privoxy is evolved, and derived from,
- A long time ago, there was the
+ the Internet Junkbuster, with many
- improvments and enhancements over the original. 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 Junkbuster was originally written by Anonymous - Coders and Internet + Junkbuster did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was + (and is) the last official + release + available from Junkbusters - Corporation, and was released as free open-source software under the - GNU GPL. Junkbusters Corporation. + Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU + GPL, which allowed further + development by others. So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an + Stefan - Waldherr made many improvements, and started the 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. Then, some + developers + picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down, + and then reassembled it, adding many + SourceForge project - Privoxy to rekindle development. There are now several active - developers contributing. The last stable release of - new + features along the way. The result of this is Junkbuster was v2.0.2, which has now - grown whiskers ;-). Privoxy, whose first + stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002. + |