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  66 ><A
  67 NAME="COPYRIGHT"
  68 >7. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</A
  69 ></H1
  70 ><P
  71 > Copyright © 2001, 2002 by Privoxy Developers <TT
  72 CLASS="EMAIL"
  73 >&#60;<A
  74 HREF="mailto:developers@privoxy.org"
  75 >developers@privoxy.org</A
  76 >&#62;</TT
  77 ></P
  78 ><P
  79 > Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders
  80  and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <I
  81 CLASS="CITETITLE"
  82 >GNU General Public
  83  License</I
  84 >.</P
  85 ><P
  86 >   Portions of this document are <SPAN
  87 CLASS="QUOTE"
  88 >"borrowed"</SPAN
  89 > from the original
  90    <SPAN
  91 CLASS="APPLICATION"
  92 >Junkbuster</SPAN
  93 > (tm) FAQ, and modified as
  94    appropriate for <SPAN
  95 CLASS="APPLICATION"
  96 >Privoxy</SPAN
  97 >.
  98   </P
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 100 CLASS="SECT2"
 101 ><H2
 102 CLASS="SECT2"
 103 ><A
 104 NAME="AEN666"
 105 >7.1. License</A
 106 ></H2
 107 ><P
 108 > <SPAN
 109 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 110 >Privoxy</SPAN
 111 > is free software; you can
 112  redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
 113  <I
 114 CLASS="CITETITLE"
 115 >GNU General Public
 116  License</I
 117 >, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.</P
 118 ><P
 119 > This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
 120  ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
 121  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 122  <I
 123 CLASS="CITETITLE"
 124 >GNU General Public License</I
 125 > for
 126
 127  more details, which is available from the Free Software Foundation, Inc, 59
 128  Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.</P
 129 ><P
 130 > You should have received a copy of the <A
 131 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"
 132 TARGET="_top"
 133 > <I
 134 CLASS="CITETITLE"
 135 >GNU General Public License</I
 136 ></A
 137 >
 138  along with this program; if not, write to the <P
 139 CLASS="ADDRESS"
 140 >&nbsp;Free&nbsp;Software<br>
 141 &nbsp;Foundation,&nbsp;Inc.&nbsp;<SPAN
 142 CLASS="STREET"
 143 >59 Temple Place</SPAN
 144 >&nbsp;-&nbsp;Suite&nbsp;330<br>
 145 &nbsp;<SPAN
 146 CLASS="CITY"
 147 >Boston</SPAN
 148 >,&nbsp;<SPAN
 149 CLASS="STATE"
 150 >MA</SPAN
 151 >&nbsp;<SPAN
 152 CLASS="POSTCODE"
 153 >02111-1307</SPAN
 154 ><br>
 155 &nbsp;<SPAN
 156 CLASS="COUNTRY"
 157 >USA</SPAN
 158 >&nbsp;</P
 159 ></P
 160 ></DIV
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 163 ><H2
 164 CLASS="SECT2"
 165 ><A
 166 NAME="AEN682"
 167 >7.2. History</A
 168 ></H2
 169 ><P
 170 > In the beginning, there was the
 171  <A
 172 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"
 173 TARGET="_top"
 174 ><SPAN
 175 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 176 >Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
 177 ></A
 178 >,
 179  by Anonymous Coders and <A
 180 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/"
 181 TARGET="_top"
 182 >Junkbusters
 183  Corporation</A
 184 >. It saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
 185  web advertising and user tracking.</P
 186 ><P
 187 > But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for
 188  forcing  users to consume ads, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
 189  for spying on them, kept evolving. Unfortunately, the <SPAN
 190 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 191 >Internet
 192  Junkbuster</SPAN
 193 > did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
 194  (and is) the last official
 195  <A
 196 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release"
 197 TARGET="_top"
 198 >release</A
 199 >
 200  available from <A
 201 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com"
 202 TARGET="_top"
 203 >Junkbusters Corporation</A
 204 >.
 205  Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
 206  <A
 207 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"
 208 TARGET="_top"
 209 > GPL</A
 210 >, which allowed further
 211  development by others.</P
 212 ><P
 213 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
 214  <A
 215 HREF="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/"
 216 TARGET="_top"
 217 >improved version of the
 218  software</A
 219 >, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
 220  It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first
 221  version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the
 222  original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support,
 223  flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release
 224  from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.</P
 225 ><P
 226 > Then, some
 227  <A
 228 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
 229 TARGET="_top"
 230 >developers</A
 231 >
 232  picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
 233  and then reassembled it, adding many
 234  <A
 235 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
 236 TARGET="_top"
 237 >new
 238  features</A
 239 > along the way.</P
 240 ><P
 241 > The result of this is <SPAN
 242 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 243 >Privoxy</SPAN
 244 >, whose first
 245  stable release, 3.0, is due in May 2002.</P
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