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  80 >1. Introduction</A
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  83 >     <SPAN
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  85 >Privoxy</SPAN
  86 >, as an heir to
  87      <SPAN
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  89 >Junkbuster</SPAN
  90 >, is a <A
  91 HREF="https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html"
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  93 >Free Software</A
  94 > project.
  95      As such, <SPAN
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  97 >Privoxy</SPAN
  98 > development is potentially open
  99      to anyone who has the time, knowledge, and desire to contribute
 100      in any capacity. Our goals are simply to continue the mission,
 101      to improve <SPAN
 102 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 103 >Privoxy</SPAN
 104 >, and
 105      to make it available to as wide an audience as possible.
 106     </P
 107 ><P
 108 >     One does not have to be a programmer to contribute. Packaging, testing,
 109      documenting and porting, are all important jobs as well.
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 117 >1.1. Quickstart to Privoxy Development</A
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 120 >    The first step is to join the <A
 121 HREF="https://lists.privoxy.org/mailman/listinfo/privoxy-devel"
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 123 >privoxy-devel mailing list</A
 124 >.
 125     You can submit your ideas or, even better, patches.
 126     Patches can also be submitted to the
 127     <A
 128 HREF="https://sourceforge.net/p/ijbswa/patches/"
 129 TARGET="_top"
 130 >Sourceforge patch tracker</A
 131 >.
 132    </P
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 134 >     You will also need to have a git package installed,
 135      in order to access the git repository.
 136      Having the GNU build tools is also going to be important (particularly,
 137      autoconf and gmake).
 138     </P
 139 ><P
 140 >      For the time being (read, this section is under construction), you can
 141       also refer to the extensive comments in the source code. In fact,
 142       reading the code is recommended in any case.
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