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  43         <a name="COPYRIGHT">7. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</a>
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  45       <p>
  46         Copyright &copy; 2001-2016 by Privoxy Developers <code class=
  47         "EMAIL">&lt;<a href=
  48         "mailto:privoxy-devel@lists.privoxy.org">privoxy-devel@lists.privoxy.org</a>&gt;</code>
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  50       <p>
  51         Some source code is based on code Copyright &copy; 1997 by Anonymous
  52         Coders and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <i class=
  53         "CITETITLE">GNU General Public License</i>.
  54       </p>
  55       <p>
  56         Portions of this document are <span class="QUOTE">"borrowed"</span>
  57         from the original <span class="APPLICATION">Junkbuster</span> (tm)
  58         FAQ, and modified as appropriate for <span class=
  59         "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>.
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  63           <a name="AEN1505">7.1. License</a>
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  65         <p>
  66           <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is free software; you can
  67           redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the <i class=
  68           "CITETITLE">GNU General Public License</i>, version 2, as published
  69           by the Free Software Foundation.
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  72           <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is distributed in the hope
  73           that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
  74           implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
  75           PURPOSE. See the <a href=
  76           "https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#LICENSE"
  77           target="_top"><i class="CITETITLE">license</i></a> for details.
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  82           <a name="AEN1514">7.2. History</a>
  83         </h2>
  84         <p>
  85           A long time ago, there was the <span class="APPLICATION">Internet
  86           Junkbuster</span>, by Anonymous Coders and Junkbusters Corporation.
  87           This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of web
  88           advertising and user tracking.
  89         </p>
  90         <p>
  91           But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the
  92           techniques for forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their
  93           browsing, and for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the
  94           <span class="APPLICATION">Internet Junkbuster</span> did not.
  95           Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was the last official release,
  96           available from Junkbusters Corporation. Fortunately, it had been
  97           released under the GNU <a href=
  98           "http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html" target=
  99           "_top">GPL</a>, which allowed further development by others.
 100         </p>
 101         <p>
 102           So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an improved version of the
 103           software, to which eventually a number of people contributed
 104           patches. It could already replace banners with a transparent image,
 105           and had a first version of pop-up killing, but it was still very
 106           closely based on the original, with all its limitations, such as
 107           the lack of HTTP/1.1 support, flexible per-site configuration, or
 108           content modification. The last release from this effort was version
 109           2.0.2-10, published in 2000.
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 112           Then, some <a href=
 113           "https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
 114           target="_top">developers</a> picked up the thread, and started
 115           turning the software inside out, upside down, and then reassembled
 116           it, adding many <a href=
 117           "https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
 118           target="_top">new features</a> along the way.
 119         </p>
 120         <p>
 121           The result of this is <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>,
 122           whose first stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
 123         </p>
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 125           As of 2012 the Junkbusters Corporation's website
 126           (http://www.junkbusters.com/) has been shut down, but Privoxy is
 127           still actively maintained.
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