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  76 NAME="INTRODUCTION">1. Introduction</H1
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  78 >     <SPAN
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  80 >Privoxy</SPAN
  81 >, as an heir to
  82      <SPAN
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  84 >Junkbuster</SPAN
  85 >, is an Open Source project
  86      and licensed under the GPL. As such, <SPAN
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  88 >Privoxy</SPAN
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  90      development is potentially open to anyone who has the time, knowledge,
  91      and desire to contribute in any capacity. Our goals are simply to
  92      continue the mission, to improve <SPAN
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  94 >Privoxy</SPAN
  95 >, and
  96      to make it available to as wide an audience as possible.
  97     </P
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  99 >     One does not have to be a programmer to contribute. Packaging, testing,
 100      and porting, are all important jobs as well.
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 107 NAME="QUICKSTART">1.1. Quickstart to Privoxy Development</H2
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 109 >      You'll need an account on <A
 110 HREF="http://sourceforge.net/"
 111 TARGET="_top"
 112 >Sourceforge</A
 113 > to support our
 114       development.  Mail your ID to <A
 115 HREF="mailto:developers@privoxy.org"
 116 TARGET="_top"
 117 >the list</A
 118 > and wait until a
 119       project manager has added you.
 120     </P
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 122 >     You will also need to have a cvs package installed, which will
 123      entail having ssh installed as well (which seems to be a requirement of
 124      SourceForge), in order to access the cvs repository. Having the GNU build
 125      tools is also going to be important (particularly, autoconf and gmake).
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 128 >      For the time being (read, this section is under construction), please
 129       refer to the extensive comments in the source code.
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