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  71 ><A
  72 NAME="COPYRIGHT"
  73 >7. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</A
  74 ></H1
  75 ><P
  76 > Copyright © 2001-2008 by Privoxy Developers <CODE
  77 CLASS="EMAIL"
  78 >&#60;<A
  79 HREF="mailto:ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net"
  80 >ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net</A
  81 >&#62;</CODE
  82 ></P
  83 ><P
  84 > Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders
  85  and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <I
  86 CLASS="CITETITLE"
  87 >GNU General Public
  88  License</I
  89 >.</P
  90 ><P
  91 >   Portions of this document are <SPAN
  92 CLASS="QUOTE"
  93 >"borrowed"</SPAN
  94 > from the original
  95    <SPAN
  96 CLASS="APPLICATION"
  97 >Junkbuster</SPAN
  98 > (tm) FAQ, and modified as
  99    appropriate for <SPAN
 100 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 101 >Privoxy</SPAN
 102 >.
 103   </P
 104 ><DIV
 105 CLASS="SECT2"
 106 ><H2
 107 CLASS="SECT2"
 108 ><A
 109 NAME="AEN1395"
 110 >7.1. License</A
 111 ></H2
 112 ><P
 113 > <SPAN
 114 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 115 >Privoxy</SPAN
 116 > is free software; you can
 117  redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
 118  <I
 119 CLASS="CITETITLE"
 120 >GNU General Public
 121  License</I
 122 >, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.</P
 123 ><P
 124 > This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
 125  ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
 126  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 127  <I
 128 CLASS="CITETITLE"
 129 >GNU General Public License</I
 130 > for
 131
 132  more details, which is available from the Free Software Foundation, Inc,
 133 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA</P
 134 ><P
 135 > You should have received a copy of the <A
 136 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"
 137 TARGET="_top"
 138 > <I
 139 CLASS="CITETITLE"
 140 >GNU General Public License</I
 141 ></A
 142 >
 143  along with this program; if not, write to the <P
 144 CLASS="ADDRESS"
 145 >&nbsp;Free&nbsp;Software<br>
 146 &nbsp;Foundation,&nbsp;Inc.&nbsp;<SPAN
 147 CLASS="STREET"
 148 >51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor</SPAN
 149 ><br>
 150 &nbsp;<SPAN
 151 CLASS="CITY"
 152 >Boston</SPAN
 153 >,&nbsp;<SPAN
 154 CLASS="STATE"
 155 >MA</SPAN
 156 >&nbsp;<SPAN
 157 CLASS="POSTCODE"
 158 >02110-1301</SPAN
 159 ><br>
 160 &nbsp;<SPAN
 161 CLASS="COUNTRY"
 162 >USA</SPAN
 163 >&nbsp;</P
 164 ></P
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 168 ><H2
 169 CLASS="SECT2"
 170 ><A
 171 NAME="AEN1411"
 172 >7.2. History</A
 173 ></H2
 174 ><P
 175 > A long time ago, there was the
 176  <A
 177 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"
 178 TARGET="_top"
 179 ><SPAN
 180 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 181 >Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
 182 ></A
 183 >,
 184  by Anonymous Coders and <A
 185 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/"
 186 TARGET="_top"
 187 >Junkbusters
 188  Corporation</A
 189 >. This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
 190  web advertising and user tracking.</P
 191 ><P
 192 > But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for
 193  forcing  ads on users, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
 194  for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the <SPAN
 195 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 196 >Internet
 197  Junkbuster</SPAN
 198 > did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
 199  (and is) the last official
 200  <A
 201 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release"
 202 TARGET="_top"
 203 >release</A
 204 >
 205  available from <A
 206 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com"
 207 TARGET="_top"
 208 >Junkbusters Corporation</A
 209 >.
 210  Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
 211  <A
 212 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"
 213 TARGET="_top"
 214 > GPL</A
 215 >, which allowed further
 216  development by others.</P
 217 ><P
 218 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
 219  <A
 220 HREF="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/"
 221 TARGET="_top"
 222 >improved version of the
 223  software</A
 224 >, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
 225  It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first
 226  version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the
 227  original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support,
 228  flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release
 229  from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.</P
 230 ><P
 231 > Then, some
 232  <A
 233 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
 234 TARGET="_top"
 235 >developers</A
 236 >
 237  picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
 238  and then reassembled it, adding many
 239  <A
 240 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
 241 TARGET="_top"
 242 >new
 243  features</A
 244 > along the way.</P
 245 ><P
 246 > The result of this is <SPAN
 247 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 248 >Privoxy</SPAN
 249 >, whose first
 250  stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
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