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  76 ><A
  77 NAME="COPYRIGHT"
  78 >12. <SPAN
  79 CLASS="APPLICATION"
  80 >Privoxy</SPAN
  81 > Copyright, License and History</A
  82 ></H1
  83 ><P
  84 > Copyright © 2001 - 2004 by Privoxy Developers <CODE
  85 CLASS="EMAIL"
  86 >&#60;<A
  87 HREF="mailto:developers@privoxy.org"
  88 >developers@privoxy.org</A
  89 >&#62;</CODE
  90 ></P
  91 ><P
  92 > Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders
  93  and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <I
  94 CLASS="CITETITLE"
  95 >GNU General Public
  96  License</I
  97 >.</P
  98 ><DIV
  99 CLASS="SECT2"
 100 ><H2
 101 CLASS="SECT2"
 102 ><A
 103 NAME="AEN3561"
 104 >12.1. License</A
 105 ></H2
 106 ><P
 107 > <SPAN
 108 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 109 >Privoxy</SPAN
 110 > is free software; you can
 111  redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
 112  <I
 113 CLASS="CITETITLE"
 114 >GNU General Public
 115  License</I
 116 >, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.</P
 117 ><P
 118 > This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
 119  ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
 120  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 121  <I
 122 CLASS="CITETITLE"
 123 >GNU General Public License</I
 124 > for
 125
 126  more details, which is available from the Free Software Foundation, Inc, 59
 127  Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.</P
 128 ><P
 129 > You should have received a copy of the <A
 130 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"
 131 TARGET="_top"
 132 > <I
 133 CLASS="CITETITLE"
 134 >GNU General Public License</I
 135 ></A
 136 >
 137  along with this program; if not, write to the <P
 138 CLASS="ADDRESS"
 139 >&nbsp;Free&nbsp;Software<br>
 140 &nbsp;Foundation,&nbsp;Inc.&nbsp;<SPAN
 141 CLASS="STREET"
 142 >59 Temple Place</SPAN
 143 >&nbsp;-&nbsp;Suite&nbsp;330<br>
 144 &nbsp;<SPAN
 145 CLASS="CITY"
 146 >Boston</SPAN
 147 >,&nbsp;<SPAN
 148 CLASS="STATE"
 149 >MA</SPAN
 150 >&nbsp;<SPAN
 151 CLASS="POSTCODE"
 152 >02111-1307</SPAN
 153 ><br>
 154 &nbsp;<SPAN
 155 CLASS="COUNTRY"
 156 >USA</SPAN
 157 >&nbsp;</P
 158 ></P
 159 ></DIV
 160 ><DIV
 161 CLASS="SECT2"
 162 ><H2
 163 CLASS="SECT2"
 164 ><A
 165 NAME="HISTORY"
 166 >12.2. History</A
 167 ></H2
 168 ><P
 169 > In the beginning, there was the
 170  <A
 171 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"
 172 TARGET="_top"
 173 ><SPAN
 174 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 175 >Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
 176 ></A
 177 >,
 178  by Anonymous Coders and <A
 179 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/"
 180 TARGET="_top"
 181 >Junkbusters
 182  Corporation</A
 183 >. It saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
 184  web advertising and user tracking.</P
 185 ><P
 186 > But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for
 187  forcing  users to consume ads, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
 188  for spying on them, kept evolving. Unfortunately, the <SPAN
 189 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 190 >Internet
 191  Junkbuster</SPAN
 192 > did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
 193  (and is) the last official
 194  <A
 195 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release"
 196 TARGET="_top"
 197 >release</A
 198 >
 199  available from <A
 200 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com"
 201 TARGET="_top"
 202 >Junkbusters Corporation</A
 203 >.
 204  Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
 205  <A
 206 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"
 207 TARGET="_top"
 208 > GPL</A
 209 >, which allowed further
 210  development by others.</P
 211 ><P
 212 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
 213  <A
 214 HREF="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/"
 215 TARGET="_top"
 216 >improved version of the
 217  software</A
 218 >, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
 219  It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first
 220  version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the
 221  original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support,
 222  flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release
 223  from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.</P
 224 ><P
 225 > Then, some
 226  <A
 227 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
 228 TARGET="_top"
 229 >developers</A
 230 >
 231  picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
 232  and then reassembled it, adding many
 233  <A
 234 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
 235 TARGET="_top"
 236 >new
 237  features</A
 238 > along the way.</P
 239 ><P
 240 > The result of this is <SPAN
 241 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 242 >Privoxy</SPAN
 243 >, whose first
 244  stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
 245  </P
 246 ></DIV
 247 ><DIV
 248 CLASS="SECT2"
 249 ><H2
 250 CLASS="SECT2"
 251 ><A
 252 NAME="AUTHORS"
 253 >12.3. Authors</A
 254 ></H2
 255 ><P
 256 > Current Developement Team:</P
 257 ><P
 258 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
 259 >&nbsp;Hal&nbsp;Burgiss&nbsp;(docs)<br>
 260 &nbsp;Andreas&nbsp;Oesterhelt<br>
 261 &nbsp;David&nbsp;Schmidt&nbsp;(OS/2,&nbsp;Mac&nbsp;OSX&nbsp;ports)<br>
 262 &nbsp;<br>&#13;</P
 263 ><P
 264 > Current and Former Project Contributors:</P
 265 ><P
 266 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
 267 >&nbsp;Johny&nbsp;Agotnes&nbsp;<br>
 268 &nbsp;Rodrigo&nbsp;Barbosa&nbsp;(RPM&nbsp;specfiles)<br>
 269 &nbsp;Moritz&nbsp;Barsnick<br>
 270 &nbsp;Brian&nbsp;Dessent<br>
 271 &nbsp;Mattes&nbsp;Dolak&nbsp;<br>
 272 &nbsp;Jon&nbsp;Foster<br>
 273 &nbsp;Karsten&nbsp;Hopp&nbsp;(Red&nbsp;Hat)<br>
 274 &nbsp;Alexander&nbsp;Lazic<br>
 275 &nbsp;Daniel&nbsp;Leite<br>
 276 &nbsp;Gábor&nbsp;Lipták<br>
 277 &nbsp;Adam&nbsp;Lock&nbsp;(Win32)<br>
 278 &nbsp;Guy&nbsp;Laroche<br>
 279 &nbsp;Haroon&nbsp;Rafique<br>
 280 &nbsp;Roland&nbsp;Rosenfeld&nbsp;(Debian)<br>
 281 &nbsp;Georg&nbsp;Sauthoff&nbsp;(Gentoo)<br>
 282 &nbsp;Thomas&nbsp;Steudten<br>
 283 &nbsp;Joerg&nbsp;Strohmayer&nbsp;(Amiga)<br>
 284 &nbsp;Rodney&nbsp;Stromlund<br>
 285 &nbsp;Sviatoslav&nbsp;Sviridov<br>
 286 &nbsp;Sarantis&nbsp;Paskalis<br>
 287 &nbsp;Stefan&nbsp;Waldherr</P
 288 ><P
 289 > Based in part on code originally developed by:</P
 290 ><P
 291 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
 292 >&nbsp;Junkbusters&nbsp;Corp.<br>
 293 &nbsp;Anonymous&nbsp;Coders</P
 294 ><P
 295 > Thanks to the many people who have tested Privoxy, reported bugs, or made
 296  suggestions. These include (in alphabetical order):</P
 297 ><P
 298 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
 299 >&nbsp;Ken&nbsp;Arromdee<br>
 300 &nbsp;Devin&nbsp;Bayer<br>
 301 &nbsp;Reiner&nbsp;Buehl<br>
 302 &nbsp;Andrew&nbsp;J.&nbsp;Caines<br>
 303 &nbsp;Clifford&nbsp;Caoile<br>
 304 &nbsp;Michael&nbsp;T.&nbsp;Davis<br>
 305 &nbsp;Brian&nbsp;Dessent<br>
 306 &nbsp;Peter&nbsp;E<br>
 307 &nbsp;Aaron&nbsp;Hamid<br>
 308 &nbsp;Magnus&nbsp;Holmgren<br>
 309 &nbsp;Don&nbsp;Libes&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
 310 &nbsp;Paul&nbsp;Lieverse<br>
 311 &nbsp;David&nbsp;Mediavilla&nbsp;<br>
 312 &nbsp;Oliver&nbsp;Stoeneberg<br>
 313 &nbsp;Roberto&nbsp;Ragusa<br>
 314 &nbsp;Maynard&nbsp;Riley<br>
 315 &nbsp;Bart&nbsp;Schelstraete<br>
 316 &nbsp;Darren&nbsp;Wiebe<br>
 317 &nbsp;Jamie&nbsp;Zawinski</P
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