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78 ><A
79 NAME="COPYRIGHT"
80 ></A
81 >12. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</H1
82 ><P
83 > Copyright © 2001 - 2006 by Privoxy Developers <TT
84 CLASS="EMAIL"
85 >&#60;<A
86 HREF="mailto:ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net"
87 >ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net</A
88 >&#62;</TT
89 ></P
90 ><P
91 > Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders
92  and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <I
93 CLASS="CITETITLE"
94 >GNU General Public
95  License</I
96 >.</P
97 ><DIV
98 CLASS="SECT2"
99 ><H2
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101 ><A
102 NAME="AEN4670"
103 ></A
104 >12.1. License</H2
105 ><P
106 > <SPAN
107 CLASS="APPLICATION"
108 >Privoxy</SPAN
109 > is free software; you can
110  redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the 
111  <I
112 CLASS="CITETITLE"
113 >GNU General Public
114  License</I
115 >, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.</P
116 ><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 
120  <I
121 CLASS="CITETITLE"
122 >GNU General Public License</I
123 > for
124  
125  more details, which is available from the Free Software Foundation, Inc, 
126 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA</P
127 ><P
128 > You should have received a copy of the <A
129 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"
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131 > <I
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133 >GNU General Public License</I
134 ></A
135 >
136  along with this program; if not, write to the <P
137 CLASS="ADDRESS"
138 >&nbsp;Free&nbsp;Software<br>
139 &nbsp;Foundation,&nbsp;Inc.&nbsp;<SPAN
140 CLASS="STREET"
141 >51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor</SPAN
142 ><br>
143 &nbsp;<SPAN
144 CLASS="CITY"
145 >Boston</SPAN
146 >,&nbsp;<SPAN
147 CLASS="STATE"
148 >MA</SPAN
149 >&nbsp;<SPAN
150 CLASS="POSTCODE"
151 >02110-1301</SPAN
152 ><br>
153 &nbsp;<SPAN
154 CLASS="COUNTRY"
155 >USA</SPAN
156 >&nbsp;</P
157 ></P
158 ></DIV
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161 ><H2
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163 ><A
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165 ></A
166 >12.2. History</H2
167 ><P
168 > Along time ago, there was the
169  <A
170 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"
171 TARGET="_top"
172 ><SPAN
173 CLASS="APPLICATION"
174 >Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
175 ></A
176 >, 
177  by Anonymous Coders and <A
178 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/"
179 TARGET="_top"
180 >Junkbusters
181  Corporation</A
182 >. This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
183  web advertising and user tracking.</P
184 ><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
188 CLASS="APPLICATION"
189 >Internet
190  Junkbuster</SPAN
191 > did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was 
192  (and is) the last official
193  <A
194 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release"
195 TARGET="_top"
196 >release</A
197 >
198  available from <A
199 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com"
200 TARGET="_top"
201 >Junkbusters Corporation</A
202 >.
203  Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
204  <A
205 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"
206 TARGET="_top"
207 > GPL</A
208 >, which allowed further
209  development by others.</P
210 ><P
211 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
212  <A
213 HREF="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/"
214 TARGET="_top"
215 >improved version of the
216  software</A
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
223 ><P
224 > Then, some
225  <A
226 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
227 TARGET="_top"
228 >developers</A
229 >
230  picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
231  and then reassembled it, adding many
232  <A
233 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
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235 >new
236  features</A
237 > along the way.</P
238 ><P
239 > The result of this is <SPAN
240 CLASS="APPLICATION"
241 >Privoxy</SPAN
242 >, whose first
243  stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002. 
244  </P
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250 ><A
251 NAME="AUTHORS"
252 ></A
253 >12.3. Authors</H2
254 ><P
255 >Current Privoxy Team:</P
256 ><P
257 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
258 >&nbsp;Fabian&nbsp;Keil,&nbsp;developer<br>
259 &nbsp;David&nbsp;Schmidt,&nbsp;developer<br>
260 &nbsp;<br>
261 &nbsp;Hal&nbsp;Burgiss<br>
262 &nbsp;Ian&nbsp;Cummings<br>
263 &nbsp;Félix&nbsp;Rauch<br>
264 &nbsp;Roland&nbsp;Rosenfeld</P
265 ><P
266 > Former Privoxy Team Members:</P
267 ><P
268 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
269 >&nbsp;Johny&nbsp;Agotnes&nbsp;<br>
270 &nbsp;Rodrigo&nbsp;Barbosa<br>
271 &nbsp;Moritz&nbsp;Barsnick<br>
272 &nbsp;Brian&nbsp;Dessent<br>
273 &nbsp;Jon&nbsp;Foster<br>
274 &nbsp;Karsten&nbsp;Hopp<br>
275 &nbsp;Alexander&nbsp;Lazic<br>
276 &nbsp;Daniel&nbsp;Leite<br>
277 &nbsp;Gábor&nbsp;Lipták<br>
278 &nbsp;Adam&nbsp;Lock<br>
279 &nbsp;Guy&nbsp;Laroche<br>
280 &nbsp;Mark&nbsp;Martinec&nbsp;<br>
281 &nbsp;Andreas&nbsp;Oesterhelt<br>
282 &nbsp;Haroon&nbsp;Rafique<br>
283 &nbsp;Georg&nbsp;Sauthoff<br>
284 &nbsp;Thomas&nbsp;Steudten<br>
285 &nbsp;Joerg&nbsp;Strohmayer<br>
286 &nbsp;Rodney&nbsp;Stromlund<br>
287 &nbsp;Sviatoslav&nbsp;Sviridov<br>
288 &nbsp;Sarantis&nbsp;Paskalis<br>
289 &nbsp;Stefan&nbsp;Waldherr</P
290 ><P
291 > Thanks to the many people who have tested Privoxy, reported bugs, made
292  suggestions or contributed in some way. These include (in alphabetical order):</P
293 ><P
294 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
295 >&nbsp;Ken&nbsp;Arromdee<br>
296 &nbsp;Devin&nbsp;Bayer<br>
297 &nbsp;Reiner&nbsp;Buehl<br>
298 &nbsp;Andrew&nbsp;J.&nbsp;Caines<br>
299 &nbsp;Clifford&nbsp;Caoile<br>
300 &nbsp;Michael&nbsp;T.&nbsp;Davis<br>
301 &nbsp;Mattes&nbsp;Dolak&nbsp;<br>
302 &nbsp;Ulrich&nbsp;Drepper<br>
303 &nbsp;Peter&nbsp;E<br>
304 &nbsp;Aaron&nbsp;Hamid<br>
305 &nbsp;Magnus&nbsp;Holmgren<br>
306 &nbsp;Don&nbsp;Libes&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
307 &nbsp;Paul&nbsp;Lieverse<br>
308 &nbsp;Jindrich&nbsp;Makovicka&nbsp;<br>
309 &nbsp;David&nbsp;Mediavilla&nbsp;<br>
310 &nbsp;Oliver&nbsp;Stoeneberg<br>
311 &nbsp;Roberto&nbsp;Ragusa<br>
312 &nbsp;Maynard&nbsp;Riley<br>
313 &nbsp;Bart&nbsp;Schelstraete<br>
314 &nbsp;Bobby&nbsp;G.&nbsp;Vinyard<br>
315 &nbsp;Darren&nbsp;Wiebe<br>
316 &nbsp;Jörg&nbsp;Weinmann&nbsp;<br>
317 &nbsp;Oliver&nbsp;Yeoh<br>
318 &nbsp;Jamie&nbsp;Zawinski</P
319 ><P
320 > Privoxy is based in part on code originally developed by:</P
321 ><P
322 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
323 >&nbsp;Junkbusters&nbsp;Corp.<br>
324 &nbsp;Anonymous&nbsp;Coders</P
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