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  81 ><A
  82 NAME="COPYRIGHT"
  83 >12. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</A
  84 ></H1
  85 ><P
  86 > Copyright © 2001-2008 by Privoxy Developers <CODE
  87 CLASS="EMAIL"
  88 >&#60;<A
  89 HREF="mailto:ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net"
  90 >ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net</A
  91 >&#62;</CODE
  92 ></P
  93 ><P
  94 > Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders
  95  and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <I
  96 CLASS="CITETITLE"
  97 >GNU General Public
  98  License</I
  99 >.</P
 100 ><DIV
 101 CLASS="SECT2"
 102 ><H2
 103 CLASS="SECT2"
 104 ><A
 105 NAME="AEN4900"
 106 >12.1. License</A
 107 ></H2
 108 ><P
 109 > <SPAN
 110 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 111 >Privoxy</SPAN
 112 > is free software; you can
 113  redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
 114  <I
 115 CLASS="CITETITLE"
 116 >GNU General Public License</I
 117 >, version 2,
 118  as published by the Free Software Foundation.</P
 119 ><P
 120 > This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
 121  ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
 122  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the <A
 123 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html"
 124 TARGET="_top"
 125 > <I
 126 CLASS="CITETITLE"
 127 >GNU General Public License</I
 128 ></A
 129 > for details.</P
 130 ><P
 131 > You should have received a copy of the <I
 132 CLASS="CITETITLE"
 133 >GNU GPL</I
 134 >
 135  along with this program; if not, write to the <P
 136 CLASS="ADDRESS"
 137 >&nbsp;Free&nbsp;Software<br>
 138 &nbsp;Foundation,&nbsp;Inc.&nbsp;<SPAN
 139 CLASS="STREET"
 140 >51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor</SPAN
 141 ><br>
 142 &nbsp;<SPAN
 143 CLASS="CITY"
 144 >Boston</SPAN
 145 >,&nbsp;<SPAN
 146 CLASS="STATE"
 147 >MA</SPAN
 148 >&nbsp;<SPAN
 149 CLASS="POSTCODE"
 150 >02110-1301</SPAN
 151 ><br>
 152 &nbsp;<SPAN
 153 CLASS="COUNTRY"
 154 >USA</SPAN
 155 >&nbsp;</P
 156 ></P
 157 ></DIV
 158 ><DIV
 159 CLASS="SECT2"
 160 ><H2
 161 CLASS="SECT2"
 162 ><A
 163 NAME="HISTORY"
 164 >12.2. History</A
 165 ></H2
 166 ><P
 167 > A long time ago, there was the
 168  <A
 169 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"
 170 TARGET="_top"
 171 ><SPAN
 172 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 173 >Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
 174 ></A
 175 >,
 176  by Anonymous Coders and <A
 177 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/"
 178 TARGET="_top"
 179 >Junkbusters
 180  Corporation</A
 181 >. This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
 182  web advertising and user tracking.</P
 183 ><P
 184 > But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for
 185  forcing  ads on users, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
 186  for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the <SPAN
 187 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 188 >Internet
 189  Junkbuster</SPAN
 190 > did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
 191  (and is) the last official
 192  <A
 193 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release"
 194 TARGET="_top"
 195 >release</A
 196 >
 197  available from <A
 198 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com"
 199 TARGET="_top"
 200 >Junkbusters Corporation</A
 201 >.
 202  Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
 203  <A
 204 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"
 205 TARGET="_top"
 206 > GPL</A
 207 >, which allowed further
 208  development by others.</P
 209 ><P
 210 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
 211  <A
 212 HREF="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/"
 213 TARGET="_top"
 214 >improved version of the
 215  software</A
 216 >, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
 217  It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first
 218  version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the
 219  original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support,
 220  flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release
 221  from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.</P
 222 ><P
 223 > Then, some
 224  <A
 225 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
 226 TARGET="_top"
 227 >developers</A
 228 >
 229  picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
 230  and then reassembled it, adding many
 231  <A
 232 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
 233 TARGET="_top"
 234 >new
 235  features</A
 236 > along the way.</P
 237 ><P
 238 > The result of this is <SPAN
 239 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 240 >Privoxy</SPAN
 241 >, whose first
 242  stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
 243  </P
 244 ></DIV
 245 ><DIV
 246 CLASS="SECT2"
 247 ><H2
 248 CLASS="SECT2"
 249 ><A
 250 NAME="AUTHORS"
 251 >12.3. Authors</A
 252 ></H2
 253 ><P
 254 >Current Privoxy Team:</P
 255 ><P
 256 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
 257 >&nbsp;Fabian&nbsp;Keil,&nbsp;lead&nbsp;developer<br>
 258 &nbsp;David&nbsp;Schmidt,&nbsp;developer<br>
 259 &nbsp;<br>
 260 &nbsp;Hal&nbsp;Burgiss<br>
 261 &nbsp;Mark&nbsp;Miller<br>
 262 &nbsp;Gerry&nbsp;Murphy<br>
 263 &nbsp;Lee&nbsp;Rian<br>
 264 &nbsp;Roland&nbsp;Rosenfeld<br>
 265 &nbsp;Jörg&nbsp;Strohmayer</P
 266 ><P
 267 > Former Privoxy Team Members:</P
 268 ><P
 269 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
 270 >&nbsp;Johny&nbsp;Agotnes&nbsp;<br>
 271 &nbsp;Rodrigo&nbsp;Barbosa<br>
 272 &nbsp;Moritz&nbsp;Barsnick<br>
 273 &nbsp;Ian&nbsp;Cummings<br>
 274 &nbsp;Brian&nbsp;Dessent<br>
 275 &nbsp;Jon&nbsp;Foster<br>
 276 &nbsp;Karsten&nbsp;Hopp<br>
 277 &nbsp;Alexander&nbsp;Lazic<br>
 278 &nbsp;Daniel&nbsp;Leite<br>
 279 &nbsp;Gábor&nbsp;Lipták<br>
 280 &nbsp;Adam&nbsp;Lock<br>
 281 &nbsp;Guy&nbsp;Laroche<br>
 282 &nbsp;Mark&nbsp;Martinec&nbsp;<br>
 283 &nbsp;Justin&nbsp;McMurtry<br>
 284 &nbsp;Andreas&nbsp;Oesterhelt<br>
 285 &nbsp;Haroon&nbsp;Rafique<br>
 286 &nbsp;Georg&nbsp;Sauthoff<br>
 287 &nbsp;Thomas&nbsp;Steudten<br>
 288 &nbsp;Rodney&nbsp;Stromlund<br>
 289 &nbsp;Sviatoslav&nbsp;Sviridov<br>
 290 &nbsp;Sarantis&nbsp;Paskalis<br>
 291 &nbsp;Stefan&nbsp;Waldherr</P
 292 ><P
 293 > Thanks to the many people who have tested Privoxy, reported bugs, provided
 294  patches, made suggestions or contributed in some way. These include (in
 295  alphabetical order):</P
 296 ><P
 297 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
 298 >&nbsp;Ken&nbsp;Arromdee<br>
 299 &nbsp;Devin&nbsp;Bayer<br>
 300 &nbsp;Gergely&nbsp;Bor<br>
 301 &nbsp;Reiner&nbsp;Buehl<br>
 302 &nbsp;Andrew&nbsp;J.&nbsp;Caines<br>
 303 &nbsp;Clifford&nbsp;Caoile<br>
 304 &nbsp;Frédéric&nbsp;Crozat<br>
 305 &nbsp;Michael&nbsp;T.&nbsp;Davis<br>
 306 &nbsp;Mattes&nbsp;Dolak&nbsp;<br>
 307 &nbsp;Peter&nbsp;E.<br>
 308 &nbsp;Florian&nbsp;Effenberger<br>
 309 &nbsp;Markus&nbsp;Elfring<br>
 310 &nbsp;Dean&nbsp;Gaudet<br>
 311 &nbsp;Stephen&nbsp;Gildea<br>
 312 &nbsp;Daniel&nbsp;Griscom<br>
 313 &nbsp;Felix&nbsp;Gröbert<br>
 314 &nbsp;Aaron&nbsp;Hamid<br>
 315 &nbsp;Darel&nbsp;Henman<br>
 316 &nbsp;Magnus&nbsp;Holmgren<br>
 317 &nbsp;Eric&nbsp;M.&nbsp;Hopper<br>
 318 &nbsp;Ralf&nbsp;Horstmann<br>
 319 &nbsp;Stefan&nbsp;Huehner&nbsp;<br>
 320 &nbsp;Peter&nbsp;Hyman<br>
 321 &nbsp;Derek&nbsp;Jennings<br>
 322 &nbsp;Petr&nbsp;Kadlec<br>
 323 &nbsp;David&nbsp;Laight<br>
 324 &nbsp;Bert&nbsp;van&nbsp;Leeuwen<br>
 325 &nbsp;Don&nbsp;Libes&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
 326 &nbsp;Paul&nbsp;Lieverse<br>
 327 &nbsp;Toby&nbsp;Lyward<br>
 328 &nbsp;Wil&nbsp;Mahan<br>
 329 &nbsp;Jindrich&nbsp;Makovicka&nbsp;<br>
 330 &nbsp;David&nbsp;Mediavilla&nbsp;<br>
 331 &nbsp;Raphael&nbsp;Moll<br>
 332 &nbsp;Amuro&nbsp;Namie<br>
 333 &nbsp;Adam&nbsp;Piggott<br>
 334 &nbsp;Dan&nbsp;Price<br>
 335 &nbsp;Roberto&nbsp;Ragusa<br>
 336 &nbsp;Félix&nbsp;Rauch<br>
 337 &nbsp;Maynard&nbsp;Riley<br>
 338 &nbsp;Chung-chieh&nbsp;Shan<br>
 339 &nbsp;Spinor&nbsp;S.<br>
 340 &nbsp;Bart&nbsp;Schelstraete<br>
 341 &nbsp;Oliver&nbsp;Stoeneberg<br>
 342 &nbsp;Peter&nbsp;Thoenen<br>
 343 &nbsp;Martin&nbsp;Thomas<br>
 344 &nbsp;Bobby&nbsp;G.&nbsp;Vinyard<br>
 345 &nbsp;Jochen&nbsp;Voss<br>
 346 &nbsp;Glenn&nbsp;Washburn<br>
 347 &nbsp;Song&nbsp;Weijia<br>
 348 &nbsp;Jörg&nbsp;Weinmann&nbsp;<br>
 349 &nbsp;Darren&nbsp;Wiebe<br>
 350 &nbsp;Anduin&nbsp;Withers<br>
 351 &nbsp;Oliver&nbsp;Yeoh<br>
 352 &nbsp;Jamie&nbsp;Zawinski</P
 353 ><P
 354 > Privoxy is based in part on code originally developed by
 355  Junkbusters Corp. and Anonymous Coders.</P
 356 ><P
 357 > Privoxy heavily relies on Philip Hazel's PCRE.</P
 358 ><P
 359 > The code to filter compressed content makes use of zlib
 360  which is written by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.</P
 361 ><P
 362 > On systems that lack snprintf(), Privoxy is using a version
 363  written by Mark Martinec. On systems that lack strptime(),
 364  Privoxy is using the one from the GNU C Library written
 365  by Ulrich Drepper.</P
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