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41     <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="COPYRIGHT" id="COPYRIGHT">9. Privoxy
42     Copyright, License and History</a></h1>
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44     <p>Copyright &copy; 2001-2011 by Privoxy Developers <code class=
45     "EMAIL">&lt;<a href=
46     "mailto:ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net">ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net</a>&gt;</code></p>
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48     <p>Some source code is based on code Copyright &copy; 1997 by Anonymous
49     Coders and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <i class=
50     "CITETITLE">GNU General Public License</i>.</p>
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53       <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN1232" id="AEN1232">9.1. License</a></h2>
54
55       <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is free software; you can
56       redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the <i class=
57       "CITETITLE">GNU General Public License</i>, version 2, as published by
58       the Free Software Foundation.</p>
59
60       <p>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
61       WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
62       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the <a href=
63       "http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html" target=
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65       details.</p>
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67       <p>You should have received a copy of the <i class="CITETITLE">GNU
68       GPL</i> along with this program; if not, write to the</p>
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70       <p class="ADDRESS">&nbsp;Free&nbsp;Software<br>
71       &nbsp;Foundation,&nbsp;Inc.&nbsp;<span class="STREET">51 Franklin
72       Street, Fifth Floor</span><br>
73       &nbsp;<span class="CITY">Boston</span>,&nbsp;<span class=
74       "STATE">MA</span>&nbsp;<span class="POSTCODE">02110-1301</span><br>
75       &nbsp;<span class="COUNTRY">USA</span>&nbsp;</p>
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79       <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN1248" id="AEN1248">9.2. History</a></h2>
80
81       <p>A long time ago, there was the <span class="APPLICATION">Internet
82       Junkbuster</span>, by Anonymous Coders and Junkbusters Corporation.
83       This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of web
84       advertising and user tracking.</p>
85
86       <p>But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the
87       techniques for forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their
88       browsing, and for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the
89       <span class="APPLICATION">Internet Junkbuster</span> did not. Version
90       2.0.2, published in 1998, was the last official release, available from
91       Junkbusters Corporation. Fortunately, it had been released under the
92       GNU <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html"
93       target="_top">GPL</a>, which allowed further development by others.</p>
94
95       <p>So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an improved version of the
96       software, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
97       It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a
98       first version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on
99       the original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1
100       support, flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The
101       last release from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in
102       2000.</p>
103
104       <p>Then, some <a href=
105       "http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS" target=
106       "_top">developers</a> picked up the thread, and started turning the
107       software inside out, upside down, and then reassembled it, adding many
108       <a href="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
109       target="_top">new features</a> along the way.</p>
110
111       <p>The result of this is <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>,
112       whose first stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.</p>
113
114       <p>As of 2012 the Junkbusters Corporation's website
115       (http://www.junkbusters.com/) has been shut down, but Privoxy is still
116       actively maintained.</p>
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