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  68 ><A
  69 NAME="COPYRIGHT"
  70 >7. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</A
  71 ></H1
  72 ><P
  73 > Copyright © 2001 - 2004 by Privoxy Developers <CODE
  74 CLASS="EMAIL"
  75 >&#60;<A
  76 HREF="mailto:developers@privoxy.org"
  77 >developers@privoxy.org</A
  78 >&#62;</CODE
  79 ></P
  80 ><P
  81 > Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders
  82  and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <I
  83 CLASS="CITETITLE"
  84 >GNU General Public
  85  License</I
  86 >.</P
  87 ><P
  88 >   Portions of this document are <SPAN
  89 CLASS="QUOTE"
  90 >"borrowed"</SPAN
  91 > from the original
  92    <SPAN
  93 CLASS="APPLICATION"
  94 >Junkbuster</SPAN
  95 > (tm) FAQ, and modified as
  96    appropriate for <SPAN
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  98 >Privoxy</SPAN
  99 >.
 100   </P
 101 ><DIV
 102 CLASS="SECT2"
 103 ><H2
 104 CLASS="SECT2"
 105 ><A
 106 NAME="AEN1014"
 107 >7.1. License</A
 108 ></H2
 109 ><P
 110 > <SPAN
 111 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 112 >Privoxy</SPAN
 113 > is free software; you can
 114  redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
 115  <I
 116 CLASS="CITETITLE"
 117 >GNU General Public
 118  License</I
 119 >, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.</P
 120 ><P
 121 > This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
 122  ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
 123  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 124  <I
 125 CLASS="CITETITLE"
 126 >GNU General Public License</I
 127 > for
 128
 129  more details, which is available from the Free Software Foundation, Inc, 59
 130  Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.</P
 131 ><P
 132 > You should have received a copy of the <A
 133 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"
 134 TARGET="_top"
 135 > <I
 136 CLASS="CITETITLE"
 137 >GNU General Public License</I
 138 ></A
 139 >
 140  along with this program; if not, write to the <P
 141 CLASS="ADDRESS"
 142 >&nbsp;Free&nbsp;Software<br>
 143 &nbsp;Foundation,&nbsp;Inc.&nbsp;<SPAN
 144 CLASS="STREET"
 145 >59 Temple Place</SPAN
 146 >&nbsp;-&nbsp;Suite&nbsp;330<br>
 147 &nbsp;<SPAN
 148 CLASS="CITY"
 149 >Boston</SPAN
 150 >,&nbsp;<SPAN
 151 CLASS="STATE"
 152 >MA</SPAN
 153 >&nbsp;<SPAN
 154 CLASS="POSTCODE"
 155 >02111-1307</SPAN
 156 ><br>
 157 &nbsp;<SPAN
 158 CLASS="COUNTRY"
 159 >USA</SPAN
 160 >&nbsp;</P
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 165 ><H2
 166 CLASS="SECT2"
 167 ><A
 168 NAME="AEN1030"
 169 >7.2. History</A
 170 ></H2
 171 ><P
 172 > In the beginning, there was the
 173  <A
 174 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"
 175 TARGET="_top"
 176 ><SPAN
 177 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 178 >Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
 179 ></A
 180 >,
 181  by Anonymous Coders and <A
 182 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/"
 183 TARGET="_top"
 184 >Junkbusters
 185  Corporation</A
 186 >. It saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
 187  web advertising and user tracking.</P
 188 ><P
 189 > But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for
 190  forcing  users to consume ads, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
 191  for spying on them, kept evolving. Unfortunately, the <SPAN
 192 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 193 >Internet
 194  Junkbuster</SPAN
 195 > did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
 196  (and is) the last official
 197  <A
 198 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release"
 199 TARGET="_top"
 200 >release</A
 201 >
 202  available from <A
 203 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com"
 204 TARGET="_top"
 205 >Junkbusters Corporation</A
 206 >.
 207  Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
 208  <A
 209 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"
 210 TARGET="_top"
 211 > GPL</A
 212 >, which allowed further
 213  development by others.</P
 214 ><P
 215 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
 216  <A
 217 HREF="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/"
 218 TARGET="_top"
 219 >improved version of the
 220  software</A
 221 >, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
 222  It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first
 223  version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the
 224  original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support,
 225  flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release
 226  from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.</P
 227 ><P
 228 > Then, some
 229  <A
 230 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
 231 TARGET="_top"
 232 >developers</A
 233 >
 234  picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
 235  and then reassembled it, adding many
 236  <A
 237 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
 238 TARGET="_top"
 239 >new
 240  features</A
 241 > along the way.</P
 242 ><P
 243 > The result of this is <SPAN
 244 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 245 >Privoxy</SPAN
 246 >, whose first
 247  stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
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