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71 ><A
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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
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
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93 >"borrowed"</SPAN
94 > from the original
95    <SPAN
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97 >Junkbuster</SPAN
98 > (tm) FAQ, and modified as 
99    appropriate for <SPAN
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101 >Privoxy</SPAN
102 >.
103   </P
104 ><DIV
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106 ><H2
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108 ><A
109 NAME="AEN1447"
110 >7.1. License</A
111 ></H2
112 ><P
113 > <SPAN
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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
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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
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144 >51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor</SPAN
145 ><br>
146 &nbsp;<SPAN
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148 >Boston</SPAN
149 >,&nbsp;<SPAN
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151 >MA</SPAN
152 >&nbsp;<SPAN
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154 >02110-1301</SPAN
155 ><br>
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166 ><A
167 NAME="AEN1463"
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"
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175 ><SPAN
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177 >Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
178 ></A
179 >, 
180  by Anonymous Coders and <A
181 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/"
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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"
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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/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html"
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210 >GPL</A
211 >,
212  which allowed further development by others.</P
213 ><P
214 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an improved version of the
215  software, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
216  It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first
217  version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the
218  original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support,
219  flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release
220  from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.</P
221 ><P
222 > Then, some
223  <A
224 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
225 TARGET="_top"
226 >developers</A
227 >
228  picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
229  and then reassembled it, adding many
230  <A
231 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
232 TARGET="_top"
233 >new
234  features</A
235 > along the way.</P
236 ><P
237 > The result of this is <SPAN
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239 >Privoxy</SPAN
240 >, whose first
241  stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002. 
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