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  51     <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="COPYRIGHT" id="COPYRIGHT">7. Privoxy
  52     Copyright, License and History</a></h1>
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  54     <p>Copyright &copy; 2001-2011 by Privoxy Developers <code class=
  55     "EMAIL">&lt;<a href=
  56     "mailto:ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net">ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net</a>&gt;</code></p>
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  58     <p>Some source code is based on code Copyright &copy; 1997 by Anonymous
  59     Coders and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <i class=
  60     "CITETITLE">GNU General Public License</i>.</p>
  61
  62     <p>Portions of this document are <span class="QUOTE">"borrowed"</span>
  63     from the original <span class="APPLICATION">Junkbuster</span> (tm) FAQ,
  64     and modified as appropriate for <span class=
  65     "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>.</p>
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  68       <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN1475" id="AEN1475">7.1. License</a></h2>
  69
  70       <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is free software; you can
  71       redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the <i class=
  72       "CITETITLE">GNU General Public License</i>, version 2, as published by
  73       the Free Software Foundation.</p>
  74
  75       <p>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
  76       WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  77       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the <a class=
  78       "CITETITLE c2" href=
  79       "http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html" target=
  80       "_top">GNU General Public License</a> for details.</p>
  81
  82       <p>You should have received a copy of the <i class="CITETITLE">GNU
  83       GPL</i> along with this program; if not, write to the</p>
  84
  85       <p class="ADDRESS">&nbsp;Free&nbsp;Software<br>
  86       &nbsp;Foundation,&nbsp;Inc.&nbsp;<span class="STREET">51 Franklin
  87       Street, Fifth Floor</span><br>
  88       &nbsp;<span class="CITY">Boston</span>,&nbsp;<span class=
  89       "STATE">MA</span>&nbsp;<span class="POSTCODE">02110-1301</span><br>
  90       &nbsp;<span class="COUNTRY">USA</span>&nbsp;</p>
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  94       <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN1491" id="AEN1491">7.2. History</a></h2>
  95
  96       <p>A long time ago, there was the <a href=
  97       "http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html" target="_top"><span class=
  98       "APPLICATION">Internet Junkbuster</span></a>, by Anonymous Coders and
  99       <a href="http://www.junkbusters.com/" target="_top">Junkbusters
 100       Corporation</a>. This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days
 101       of web advertising and user tracking.</p>
 102
 103       <p>But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the
 104       techniques for forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their
 105       browsing, and for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the
 106       <span class="APPLICATION">Internet Junkbuster</span> did not. Version
 107       2.0.2, published in 1998, was (and is) the last official <a href=
 108       "http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release" target=
 109       "_top">release</a> available from <a href="http://www.junkbusters.com"
 110       target="_top">Junkbusters Corporation</a>. Fortunately, it had been
 111       released under the GNU <a href=
 112       "http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html" target=
 113       "_top">GPL</a>, which allowed further development by others.</p>
 114
 115       <p>So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an improved version of the
 116       software, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
 117       It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a
 118       first version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on
 119       the original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1
 120       support, flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The
 121       last release from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in
 122       2000.</p>
 123
 124       <p>Then, some <a href=
 125       "http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS" target=
 126       "_top">developers</a> picked up the thread, and started turning the
 127       software inside out, upside down, and then reassembled it, adding many
 128       <a href="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
 129       target="_top">new features</a> along the way.</p>
 130
 131       <p>The result of this is <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>,
 132       whose first stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.</p>
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