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  41     <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="COPYRIGHT" id="COPYRIGHT">7. Privoxy
  42     Copyright, License and History</a></h1>
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  44     <p>Copyright &copy; 2001-2013 by Privoxy Developers <code class=
  45     "EMAIL">&lt;<a href=
  46     "mailto:ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net">ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net</a>&gt;</code></p>
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  48     <p>Some source code is based on code Copyright &copy; 1997 by Anonymous
  49     Coders and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <i class=
  50     "CITETITLE">GNU General Public License</i>.</p>
  51
  52     <p>Portions of this document are <span class="QUOTE">"borrowed"</span>
  53     from the original <span class="APPLICATION">Junkbuster</span> (tm) FAQ,
  54     and modified as appropriate for <span class=
  55     "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>.</p>
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  58       <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN1466" id="AEN1466">7.1. License</a></h2>
  59
  60       <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is free software; you can
  61       redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the <i class=
  62       "CITETITLE">GNU General Public License</i>, version 2, as published by
  63       the Free Software Foundation.</p>
  64
  65       <p>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
  66       WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  67       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the <a href=
  68       "http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html" target=
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  70       details.</p>
  71
  72       <p>You should have received a copy of the <i class="CITETITLE">GNU
  73       GPL</i> along with this program; if not, write to the</p>
  74
  75       <p class="ADDRESS">&nbsp;Free&nbsp;Software<br>
  76       &nbsp;Foundation,&nbsp;Inc.&nbsp;<span class="STREET">51 Franklin
  77       Street, Fifth Floor</span><br>
  78       &nbsp;<span class="CITY">Boston</span>,&nbsp;<span class=
  79       "STATE">MA</span>&nbsp;<span class="POSTCODE">02110-1301</span><br>
  80       &nbsp;<span class="COUNTRY">USA</span>&nbsp;</p>
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  84       <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN1482" id="AEN1482">7.2. History</a></h2>
  85
  86       <p>A long time ago, there was the <span class="APPLICATION">Internet
  87       Junkbuster</span>, by Anonymous Coders and Junkbusters Corporation.
  88       This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of web
  89       advertising and user tracking.</p>
  90
  91       <p>But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the
  92       techniques for forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their
  93       browsing, and for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the
  94       <span class="APPLICATION">Internet Junkbuster</span> did not. Version
  95       2.0.2, published in 1998, was the last official release, available from
  96       Junkbusters Corporation. Fortunately, it had been released under the
  97       GNU <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html"
  98       target="_top">GPL</a>, which allowed further development by others.</p>
  99
 100       <p>So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an improved version of the
 101       software, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
 102       It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a
 103       first version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on
 104       the original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1
 105       support, flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The
 106       last release from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in
 107       2000.</p>
 108
 109       <p>Then, some <a href=
 110       "http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS" target=
 111       "_top">developers</a> picked up the thread, and started turning the
 112       software inside out, upside down, and then reassembled it, adding many
 113       <a href="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
 114       target="_top">new features</a> along the way.</p>
 115
 116       <p>The result of this is <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>,
 117       whose first stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.</p>
 118
 119       <p>As of 2012 the Junkbusters Corporation's website
 120       (http://www.junkbusters.com/) has been shut down, but Privoxy is still
 121       actively maintained.</p>
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