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  78 ><A
  79 NAME="COPYRIGHT"
  80 >9. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</A
  81 ></H1
  82 ><P
  83 > Copyright © 2001-2008 by Privoxy Developers <CODE
  84 CLASS="EMAIL"
  85 >&#60;<A
  86 HREF="mailto:ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net"
  87 >ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net</A
  88 >&#62;</CODE
  89 ></P
  90 ><P
  91 > Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders
  92  and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <I
  93 CLASS="CITETITLE"
  94 >GNU General Public
  95  License</I
  96 >.</P
  97 ><DIV
  98 CLASS="SECT2"
  99 ><H2
 100 CLASS="SECT2"
 101 ><A
 102 NAME="AEN1224"
 103 >9.1. License</A
 104 ></H2
 105 ><P
 106 > <SPAN
 107 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 108 >Privoxy</SPAN
 109 > is free software; you can
 110  redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
 111  <I
 112 CLASS="CITETITLE"
 113 >GNU General Public License</I
 114 >, version 2,
 115  as published by the Free Software Foundation.</P
 116 ><P
 117 > This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
 118  ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
 119  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the <A
 120 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html"
 121 TARGET="_top"
 122 > <I
 123 CLASS="CITETITLE"
 124 >GNU General Public License</I
 125 ></A
 126 > for details.</P
 127 ><P
 128 > You should have received a copy of the <I
 129 CLASS="CITETITLE"
 130 >GNU GPL</I
 131 >
 132  along with this program; if not, write to the <P
 133 CLASS="ADDRESS"
 134 >&nbsp;Free&nbsp;Software<br>
 135 &nbsp;Foundation,&nbsp;Inc.&nbsp;<SPAN
 136 CLASS="STREET"
 137 >51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor</SPAN
 138 ><br>
 139 &nbsp;<SPAN
 140 CLASS="CITY"
 141 >Boston</SPAN
 142 >,&nbsp;<SPAN
 143 CLASS="STATE"
 144 >MA</SPAN
 145 >&nbsp;<SPAN
 146 CLASS="POSTCODE"
 147 >02110-1301</SPAN
 148 ><br>
 149 &nbsp;<SPAN
 150 CLASS="COUNTRY"
 151 >USA</SPAN
 152 >&nbsp;</P
 153 ></P
 154 ></DIV
 155 ><DIV
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 157 ><H2
 158 CLASS="SECT2"
 159 ><A
 160 NAME="AEN1240"
 161 >9.2. History</A
 162 ></H2
 163 ><P
 164 > A long time ago, there was the
 165  <A
 166 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"
 167 TARGET="_top"
 168 ><SPAN
 169 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 170 >Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
 171 ></A
 172 >,
 173  by Anonymous Coders and <A
 174 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/"
 175 TARGET="_top"
 176 >Junkbusters
 177  Corporation</A
 178 >. This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
 179  web advertising and user tracking.</P
 180 ><P
 181 > But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for
 182  forcing  ads on users, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
 183  for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the <SPAN
 184 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 185 >Internet
 186  Junkbuster</SPAN
 187 > did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
 188  (and is) the last official
 189  <A
 190 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release"
 191 TARGET="_top"
 192 >release</A
 193 >
 194  available from <A
 195 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com"
 196 TARGET="_top"
 197 >Junkbusters Corporation</A
 198 >.
 199  Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
 200  <A
 201 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"
 202 TARGET="_top"
 203 > GPL</A
 204 >, which allowed further
 205  development by others.</P
 206 ><P
 207 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
 208  <A
 209 HREF="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/"
 210 TARGET="_top"
 211 >improved version of the
 212  software</A
 213 >, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
 214  It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first
 215  version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the
 216  original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support,
 217  flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release
 218  from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.</P
 219 ><P
 220 > Then, some
 221  <A
 222 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
 223 TARGET="_top"
 224 >developers</A
 225 >
 226  picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
 227  and then reassembled it, adding many
 228  <A
 229 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
 230 TARGET="_top"
 231 >new
 232  features</A
 233 > along the way.</P
 234 ><P
 235 > The result of this is <SPAN
 236 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 237 >Privoxy</SPAN
 238 >, whose first
 239  stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
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