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  41     <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="COPYRIGHT" id="COPYRIGHT">7. 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>
  51
  52     <p>Portions of this document are <span class="QUOTE">"borrowed"</span>
  53     from the original <span class="APPLICATION">Junkbuster</span> (tm) FAQ,
  54     and modified as appropriate for <span class=
  55     "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>.</p>
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  58       <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN1475" id="AEN1475">7.1. License</a></h2>
  59
  60       <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is free software; you can
  61       redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the <i class=
  62       "CITETITLE">GNU General Public License</i>, version 2, as published by
  63       the Free Software Foundation.</p>
  64
  65       <p>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
  66       WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  67       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the <a href=
  68       "http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html" target=
  69       "_top"><i class="CITETITLE">GNU General Public License</i></a> for
  70       details.</p>
  71
  72       <p>You should have received a copy of the <i class="CITETITLE">GNU
  73       GPL</i> along with this program; if not, write to the</p>
  74
  75       <p class="ADDRESS">&nbsp;Free&nbsp;Software<br>
  76       &nbsp;Foundation,&nbsp;Inc.&nbsp;<span class="STREET">51 Franklin
  77       Street, Fifth Floor</span><br>
  78       &nbsp;<span class="CITY">Boston</span>,&nbsp;<span class=
  79       "STATE">MA</span>&nbsp;<span class="POSTCODE">02110-1301</span><br>
  80       &nbsp;<span class="COUNTRY">USA</span>&nbsp;</p>
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  84       <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN1491" id="AEN1491">7.2. History</a></h2>
  85
  86       <p>A long time ago, there was the <a href=
  87       "http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html" target="_top"><span class=
  88       "APPLICATION">Internet Junkbuster</span></a>, by Anonymous Coders and
  89       <a href="http://www.junkbusters.com/" target="_top">Junkbusters
  90       Corporation</a>. This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days
  91       of web advertising and user tracking.</p>
  92
  93       <p>But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the
  94       techniques for forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their
  95       browsing, and for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the
  96       <span class="APPLICATION">Internet Junkbuster</span> did not. Version
  97       2.0.2, published in 1998, was (and is) the last official <a href=
  98       "http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release" target=
  99       "_top">release</a> available from <a href="http://www.junkbusters.com"
 100       target="_top">Junkbusters Corporation</a>. Fortunately, it had been
 101       released under the GNU <a href=
 102       "http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html" target=
 103       "_top">GPL</a>, which allowed further development by others.</p>
 104
 105       <p>So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an improved version of the
 106       software, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
 107       It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a
 108       first version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on
 109       the original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1
 110       support, flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The
 111       last release from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in
 112       2000.</p>
 113
 114       <p>Then, some <a href=
 115       "http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS" target=
 116       "_top">developers</a> picked up the thread, and started turning the
 117       software inside out, upside down, and then reassembled it, adding many
 118       <a href="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
 119       target="_top">new features</a> along the way.</p>
 120
 121       <p>The result of this is <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>,
 122       whose first stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.</p>
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