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81 >12. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</H1
83 > Copyright © 2001 - 2006 by Privoxy Developers <TT
86 HREF="mailto:ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net"
87 >ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net</A
91 > Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders
92 and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <I
109 > is free software; you can
110 redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
115 >, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.</P
117 > This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
118 ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
119 FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
122 >GNU General Public License</I
125 more details, which is available from the Free Software Foundation, Inc,
126 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA</P
128 > You should have received a copy of the <A
129 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"
133 >GNU General Public License</I
136 along with this program; if not, write to the <P
138 > Free Software<br>
139 Foundation, Inc. <SPAN
141 >51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor</SPAN
168 > A long time ago, there was the
170 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"
174 >Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
177 by Anonymous Coders and <A
178 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/"
182 >. This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
183 web advertising and user tracking.</P
185 > But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for
186 forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
187 for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the <SPAN
191 > did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
192 (and is) the last official
194 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release"
199 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com"
201 >Junkbusters Corporation</A
203 Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
205 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"
208 >, which allowed further
209 development by others.</P
211 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
213 HREF="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/"
215 >improved version of the
217 >, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
218 It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first
219 version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the
220 original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support,
221 flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release
222 from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.</P
226 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
230 picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
231 and then reassembled it, adding many
233 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
239 > The result of this is <SPAN
243 stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
255 >Current Privoxy Team:</P
257 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
258 > Fabian Keil, developer<br>
259 David Schmidt, developer<br>
261 Hal Burgiss<br>
262 Ian Cummings<br>
263 Justin McMurtry<br>
264 Roland Rosenfeld</P
266 > Former Privoxy Team Members:</P
268 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
269 > Johny Agotnes <br>
270 Rodrigo Barbosa<br>
271 Moritz Barsnick<br>
272 Brian Dessent<br>
273 Jon Foster<br>
274 Karsten Hopp<br>
275 Alexander Lazic<br>
276 Daniel Leite<br>
277 Gábor Lipták<br>
278 Adam Lock<br>
279 Guy Laroche<br>
280 Mark Martinec <br>
281 Andreas Oesterhelt<br>
282 Haroon Rafique<br>
283 Georg Sauthoff<br>
284 Thomas Steudten<br>
285 Joerg Strohmayer<br>
286 Rodney Stromlund<br>
287 Sviatoslav Sviridov<br>
288 Sarantis Paskalis<br>
289 Stefan Waldherr</P
291 > Thanks to the many people who have tested Privoxy, reported bugs, provided
292 patches, made suggestions or contributed in some way. These include (in
293 alphabetical order):</P
295 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
296 > Ken Arromdee<br>
297 Devin Bayer<br>
298 Reiner Buehl<br>
299 Andrew J. Caines<br>
300 Clifford Caoile<br>
301 Frédéric Crozat<br>
302 Michael T. Davis<br>
303 Mattes Dolak <br>
304 Peter E<br>
305 Florian Effenberger<br>
306 Dean Gaudet<br>
307 Aaron Hamid<br>
308 Darel Henman<br>
309 Magnus Holmgren<br>
310 Derek Jennings<br>
311 David Laight<br>
312 Don Libes <br>
313 Paul Lieverse<br>
314 Jindrich Makovicka <br>
315 David Mediavilla <br>
316 Raphael Moll<br>
317 Adam Piggott<br>
318 Oliver Stoeneberg<br>
319 Martin Thomas<br>
320 Roberto Ragusa<br>
321 Félix Rauch<br>
322 Maynard Riley<br>
323 Spinor S<br>
324 Bart Schelstraete<br>
325 Bobby G. Vinyard<br>
326 Jörg Weinmann <br>
327 Darren Wiebe<br>
328 Anduin Withers<br>
329 Oliver Yeoh<br>
330 Jamie Zawinski</P
332 > Privoxy is based in part on code originally developed by:</P
334 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
335 > Junkbusters Corp.<br>
336 Anonymous Coders<br>
337 Ulrich Drepper<br>
338 Philip Hazel</P
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