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  73 ><A
  74 NAME="COPYRIGHT"
  75 >12. <SPAN
  76 CLASS="APPLICATION"
  77 >Privoxy</SPAN
  78 > Copyright, License and History</A
  79 ></H1
  80 ><P
  81 > Copyright © 2001, 2002 by Privoxy Developers <TT
  82 CLASS="EMAIL"
  83 >&#60;<A
  84 HREF="mailto:developers@privoxy.org"
  85 >developers@privoxy.org</A
  86 >&#62;</TT
  87 ></P
  88 ><P
  89 > Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders
  90  and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <I
  91 CLASS="CITETITLE"
  92 >GNU General Public
  93  License</I
  94 >.</P
  95 ><DIV
  96 CLASS="SECT2"
  97 ><H2
  98 CLASS="SECT2"
  99 ><A
 100 NAME="AEN3096"
 101 >12.1. License</A
 102 ></H2
 103 ><P
 104 > <SPAN
 105 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 106 >Privoxy</SPAN
 107 > is free software; you can
 108  redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
 109  <I
 110 CLASS="CITETITLE"
 111 >GNU General Public
 112  License</I
 113 >, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.</P
 114 ><P
 115 > This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
 116  ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
 117  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 118  <I
 119 CLASS="CITETITLE"
 120 >GNU General Public License</I
 121 > for
 122
 123  more details, which is available from the Free Software Foundation, Inc, 59
 124  Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.</P
 125 ><P
 126 > You should have received a copy of the <A
 127 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"
 128 TARGET="_top"
 129 > <I
 130 CLASS="CITETITLE"
 131 >GNU General Public License</I
 132 ></A
 133 >
 134  along with this program; if not, write to the <P
 135 CLASS="ADDRESS"
 136 >&nbsp;Free&nbsp;Software<br>
 137 &nbsp;Foundation,&nbsp;Inc.&nbsp;<SPAN
 138 CLASS="STREET"
 139 >59 Temple Place</SPAN
 140 >&nbsp;-&nbsp;Suite&nbsp;330<br>
 141 &nbsp;<SPAN
 142 CLASS="CITY"
 143 >Boston</SPAN
 144 >,&nbsp;<SPAN
 145 CLASS="STATE"
 146 >MA</SPAN
 147 >&nbsp;<SPAN
 148 CLASS="POSTCODE"
 149 >02111-1307</SPAN
 150 ><br>
 151 &nbsp;<SPAN
 152 CLASS="COUNTRY"
 153 >USA</SPAN
 154 >&nbsp;</P
 155 ></P
 156 ></DIV
 157 ><DIV
 158 CLASS="SECT2"
 159 ><H2
 160 CLASS="SECT2"
 161 ><A
 162 NAME="HISTORY"
 163 >12.2. History</A
 164 ></H2
 165 ><P
 166 > In the beginning, there was the
 167  <A
 168 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"
 169 TARGET="_top"
 170 ><SPAN
 171 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 172 >Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
 173 ></A
 174 >,
 175  by Anonymous Coders and <A
 176 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/"
 177 TARGET="_top"
 178 >Junkbusters
 179  Corporation</A
 180 >. It saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
 181  web advertising and user tracking.</P
 182 ><P
 183 > But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for
 184  forcing  users to consume ads, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
 185  for spying on them, kept evolving. Unfortunately, the <SPAN
 186 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 187 >Internet
 188  Junkbuster</SPAN
 189 > did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
 190  (and is) the last official
 191  <A
 192 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release"
 193 TARGET="_top"
 194 >release</A
 195 >
 196  available from <A
 197 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com"
 198 TARGET="_top"
 199 >Junkbusters Corporation</A
 200 >.
 201  Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
 202  <A
 203 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"
 204 TARGET="_top"
 205 > GPL</A
 206 >, which allowed further
 207  development by others.</P
 208 ><P
 209 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
 210  <A
 211 HREF="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/"
 212 TARGET="_top"
 213 >improved version of the
 214  software</A
 215 >, 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
 238 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 239 >Privoxy</SPAN
 240 >, whose first
 241  stable release, 3.0, is due in May 2002.</P
 242 ></DIV
 243 ><DIV
 244 CLASS="SECT2"
 245 ><H2
 246 CLASS="SECT2"
 247 ><A
 248 NAME="AUTHORS"
 249 >12.3. Authors</A
 250 ></H2
 251 ><P
 252 > Current Project Developers:</P
 253 ><P
 254 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
 255 >&nbsp;Jon&nbsp;Foster<br>
 256 &nbsp;Andreas&nbsp;Oesterhelt<br>
 257 &nbsp;Stefan&nbsp;Waldherr<br>
 258 &nbsp;<br>
 259 &nbsp;Thomas&nbsp;Steudten<br>
 260 &nbsp;Rodney&nbsp;Stromlund</P
 261 ><P
 262 > Current Project Contributors:</P
 263 ><P
 264 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
 265 >&nbsp;Rodrigo&nbsp;Barbosa&nbsp;(RPM&nbsp;specfiles)<br>
 266 &nbsp;Hal&nbsp;Burgiss&nbsp;(docs)<br>
 267 &nbsp;Alexander&nbsp;Lazic<br>
 268 &nbsp;Gábor&nbsp;Lipták<br>
 269 &nbsp;Guy<br>
 270 &nbsp;Haroon&nbsp;Rafique<br>
 271 &nbsp;David&nbsp;Schmidt&nbsp;(OS/2,&nbsp;Mac&nbsp;OSX&nbsp;ports)<br>
 272 &nbsp;Joerg&nbsp;Strohmayer<br>
 273 &nbsp;Sarantis&nbsp;Paskalis</P
 274 ><P
 275 > Originally developed by:</P
 276 ><P
 277 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
 278 >&nbsp;Junkbusters&nbsp;Corp.<br>
 279 &nbsp;Anonymous&nbsp;Coders</P
 280 ><P
 281 > Thanks to the many people who have tested Privoxy, reported bugs, or made
 282  suggestions. These include (in alphabetical order):</P
 283 ><P
 284 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
 285 >&nbsp;Ken&nbsp;Arromdee<br>
 286 &nbsp;Reiner&nbsp;Buehl<br>
 287 &nbsp;Andrew&nbsp;J.&nbsp;Caines<br>
 288 &nbsp;Clifford&nbsp;Caoile<br>
 289 &nbsp;Peter&nbsp;E<br>
 290 &nbsp;Aaron&nbsp;Hamid<br>
 291 &nbsp;Magnus&nbsp;Holmgren<br>
 292 &nbsp;Paul&nbsp;Lieverse<br>
 293 &nbsp;Roberto&nbsp;Ragusa<br>
 294 &nbsp;Bart&nbsp;Schelstraete<br>
 295 &nbsp;Darren&nbsp;Wiebe</P
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