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  71 ><A
  72 NAME="COPYRIGHT"
  73 >7. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</A
  74 ></H1
  75 ><P
  76 > Copyright © 2001-2009 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
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  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="AEN1448"
 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 License</I
 121 >, version 2,
 122  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 <A
 127 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html"
 128 TARGET="_top"
 129 > <I
 130 CLASS="CITETITLE"
 131 >GNU General Public License</I
 132 ></A
 133 > for details.</P
 134 ><P
 135 > You should have received a copy of the <I
 136 CLASS="CITETITLE"
 137 >GNU GPL</I
 138 >
 139  along with this program; if not, write to the <P
 140 CLASS="ADDRESS"
 141 >&nbsp;Free&nbsp;Software<br>
 142 &nbsp;Foundation,&nbsp;Inc.&nbsp;<SPAN
 143 CLASS="STREET"
 144 >51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor</SPAN
 145 ><br>
 146 &nbsp;<SPAN
 147 CLASS="CITY"
 148 >Boston</SPAN
 149 >,&nbsp;<SPAN
 150 CLASS="STATE"
 151 >MA</SPAN
 152 >&nbsp;<SPAN
 153 CLASS="POSTCODE"
 154 >02110-1301</SPAN
 155 ><br>
 156 &nbsp;<SPAN
 157 CLASS="COUNTRY"
 158 >USA</SPAN
 159 >&nbsp;</P
 160 ></P
 161 ></DIV
 162 ><DIV
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 164 ><H2
 165 CLASS="SECT2"
 166 ><A
 167 NAME="AEN1464"
 168 >7.2. History</A
 169 ></H2
 170 ><P
 171 > A long time ago, there was the
 172  <A
 173 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"
 174 TARGET="_top"
 175 ><SPAN
 176 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 177 >Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
 178 ></A
 179 >,
 180  by Anonymous Coders and <A
 181 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/"
 182 TARGET="_top"
 183 >Junkbusters
 184  Corporation</A
 185 >. This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
 186  web advertising and user tracking.</P
 187 ><P
 188 > But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for
 189  forcing  ads on users, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
 190  for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the <SPAN
 191 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 192 >Internet
 193  Junkbuster</SPAN
 194 > did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
 195  (and is) the last official
 196  <A
 197 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release"
 198 TARGET="_top"
 199 >release</A
 200 >
 201  available from <A
 202 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com"
 203 TARGET="_top"
 204 >Junkbusters Corporation</A
 205 >.
 206  Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
 207  <A
 208 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"
 209 TARGET="_top"
 210 > GPL</A
 211 >, which allowed further
 212  development by others.</P
 213 ><P
 214 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
 215  <A
 216 HREF="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/"
 217 TARGET="_top"
 218 >improved version of the
 219  software</A
 220 >, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
 221  It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first
 222  version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the
 223  original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support,
 224  flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release
 225  from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.</P
 226 ><P
 227 > Then, some
 228  <A
 229 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
 230 TARGET="_top"
 231 >developers</A
 232 >
 233  picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
 234  and then reassembled it, adding many
 235  <A
 236 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
 237 TARGET="_top"
 238 >new
 239  features</A
 240 > along the way.</P
 241 ><P
 242 > The result of this is <SPAN
 243 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 244 >Privoxy</SPAN
 245 >, whose first
 246  stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
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