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  54     <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="COPYRIGHT" id="COPYRIGHT">7. Privoxy
  55     Copyright, License and History</a></h1>
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  57     <p>Copyright &copy; 2001-2011 by Privoxy Developers <code class=
  58     "EMAIL">&lt;<a href=
  59     "mailto:ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net">ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net</a>&gt;</code></p>
  60
  61     <p>Some source code is based on code Copyright &copy; 1997 by Anonymous
  62     Coders and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <i class=
  63     "CITETITLE">GNU General Public License</i>.</p>
  64
  65     <p>Portions of this document are <span class="QUOTE">"borrowed"</span>
  66     from the original <span class="APPLICATION">Junkbuster</span> (tm) FAQ,
  67     and modified as appropriate for <span class=
  68     "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>.</p>
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  71       <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN1475" id="AEN1475">7.1. License</a></h2>
  72
  73       <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is free software; you can
  74       redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the <i class=
  75       "CITETITLE">GNU General Public License</i>, version 2, as published by
  76       the Free Software Foundation.</p>
  77
  78       <p>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
  79       WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  80       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the <a class=
  81       "CITETITLE c2" href=
  82       "http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html" target=
  83       "_top">GNU General Public License</a> for details.</p>
  84
  85       <p>You should have received a copy of the <i class="CITETITLE">GNU
  86       GPL</i> along with this program; if not, write to the</p>
  87
  88       <p class="ADDRESS">&nbsp;Free&nbsp;Software<br>
  89       &nbsp;Foundation,&nbsp;Inc.&nbsp;<span class="STREET">51 Franklin
  90       Street, Fifth Floor</span><br>
  91       &nbsp;<span class="CITY">Boston</span>,&nbsp;<span class=
  92       "STATE">MA</span>&nbsp;<span class="POSTCODE">02110-1301</span><br>
  93       &nbsp;<span class="COUNTRY">USA</span>&nbsp;</p>
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  97       <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN1491" id="AEN1491">7.2. History</a></h2>
  98
  99       <p>A long time ago, there was the <a href=
 100       "http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html" target="_top"><span class=
 101       "APPLICATION">Internet Junkbuster</span></a>, by Anonymous Coders and
 102       <a href="http://www.junkbusters.com/" target="_top">Junkbusters
 103       Corporation</a>. This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days
 104       of web advertising and user tracking.</p>
 105
 106       <p>But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the
 107       techniques for forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their
 108       browsing, and for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the
 109       <span class="APPLICATION">Internet Junkbuster</span> did not. Version
 110       2.0.2, published in 1998, was (and is) the last official <a href=
 111       "http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release" target=
 112       "_top">release</a> available from <a href="http://www.junkbusters.com"
 113       target="_top">Junkbusters Corporation</a>. Fortunately, it had been
 114       released under the GNU <a href=
 115       "http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html" target=
 116       "_top">GPL</a>, which allowed further development by others.</p>
 117
 118       <p>So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an improved version of the
 119       software, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
 120       It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a
 121       first version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on
 122       the original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1
 123       support, flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The
 124       last release from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in
 125       2000.</p>
 126
 127       <p>Then, some <a href=
 128       "http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS" target=
 129       "_top">developers</a> picked up the thread, and started turning the
 130       software inside out, upside down, and then reassembled it, adding many
 131       <a href="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
 132       target="_top">new features</a> along the way.</p>
 133
 134       <p>The result of this is <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>,
 135       whose first stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.</p>
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