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75 ><A
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77 >9. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</A
78 ></H1
79 ><P
80 > Copyright © 2001 - 2004 by Privoxy Developers <CODE
81 CLASS="EMAIL"
82 >&#60;<A
83 HREF="mailto:developers@privoxy.org"
84 >developers@privoxy.org</A
85 >&#62;</CODE
86 ></P
87 ><P
88 > Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders
89  and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <I
90 CLASS="CITETITLE"
91 >GNU General Public
92  License</I
93 >.</P
94 ><DIV
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96 ><H2
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98 ><A
99 NAME="AEN1177"
100 >9.1. License</A
101 ></H2
102 ><P
103 > <SPAN
104 CLASS="APPLICATION"
105 >Privoxy</SPAN
106 > is free software; you can
107  redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the 
108  <I
109 CLASS="CITETITLE"
110 >GNU General Public
111  License</I
112 >, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.</P
113 ><P
114 > This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
115  ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
116  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the 
117  <I
118 CLASS="CITETITLE"
119 >GNU General Public License</I
120 > for
121  
122  more details, which is available from the Free Software Foundation, Inc, 59
123  Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.</P
124 ><P
125 > You should have received a copy of the <A
126 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"
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128 > <I
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131 ></A
132 >
133  along with this program; if not, write to the <P
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135 >&nbsp;Free&nbsp;Software<br>
136 &nbsp;Foundation,&nbsp;Inc.&nbsp;<SPAN
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138 >59 Temple Place</SPAN
139 >&nbsp;-&nbsp;Suite&nbsp;330<br>
140 &nbsp;<SPAN
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142 >Boston</SPAN
143 >,&nbsp;<SPAN
144 CLASS="STATE"
145 >MA</SPAN
146 >&nbsp;<SPAN
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148 >02111-1307</SPAN
149 ><br>
150 &nbsp;<SPAN
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152 >USA</SPAN
153 >&nbsp;</P
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158 ><H2
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160 ><A
161 NAME="AEN1193"
162 >9.2. History</A
163 ></H2
164 ><P
165 > In the beginning, there was the
166  <A
167 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"
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169 ><SPAN
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171 >Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
172 ></A
173 >, 
174  by Anonymous Coders and <A
175 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/"
176 TARGET="_top"
177 >Junkbusters
178  Corporation</A
179 >. It saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
180  web advertising and user tracking.</P
181 ><P
182 > But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for
183  forcing  users to consume ads, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
184  for spying on them, kept evolving. Unfortunately, the <SPAN
185 CLASS="APPLICATION"
186 >Internet
187  Junkbuster</SPAN
188 > did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was 
189  (and is) the last official
190  <A
191 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release"
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193 >release</A
194 >
195  available from <A
196 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com"
197 TARGET="_top"
198 >Junkbusters Corporation</A
199 >.
200  Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
201  <A
202 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"
203 TARGET="_top"
204 > GPL</A
205 >, which allowed further
206  development by others.</P
207 ><P
208 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
209  <A
210 HREF="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/"
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212 >improved version of the
213  software</A
214 >, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
215  It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first
216  version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the
217  original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support,
218  flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release
219  from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.</P
220 ><P
221 > Then, some
222  <A
223 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
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225 >developers</A
226 >
227  picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
228  and then reassembled it, adding many
229  <A
230 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
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232 >new
233  features</A
234 > along the way.</P
235 ><P
236 > The result of this is <SPAN
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238 >Privoxy</SPAN
239 >, whose first
240  stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002. 
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