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  78 ><A
  79 NAME="COPYRIGHT"
  80 ></A
  81 >12. <SPAN
  82 CLASS="APPLICATION"
  83 >Privoxy</SPAN
  84 > Copyright, License and History</H1
  85 ><P
  86 > Copyright © 2001 - 2006 by Privoxy Developers <TT
  87 CLASS="EMAIL"
  88 >&#60;<A
  89 HREF="mailto:ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net"
  90 >ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net</A
  91 >&#62;</TT
  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="AEN4533"
 106 ></A
 107 >12.1. License</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
 117  License</I
 118 >, version 2, 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
 123  <I
 124 CLASS="CITETITLE"
 125 >GNU General Public License</I
 126 > for
 127
 128  more details, which is available from the Free Software Foundation, Inc, 59
 129  Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.</P
 130 ><P
 131 > You should have received a copy of the <A
 132 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"
 133 TARGET="_top"
 134 > <I
 135 CLASS="CITETITLE"
 136 >GNU General Public License</I
 137 ></A
 138 >
 139  along with this program; if not, write to the <P
 140 CLASS="ADDRESS"
 141 >&nbsp;Free&nbsp;Software<br>
 142 &nbsp;Foundation,&nbsp;Inc.&nbsp;<SPAN
 143 CLASS="STREET"
 144 >59 Temple Place</SPAN
 145 >&nbsp;-&nbsp;Suite&nbsp;330<br>
 146 &nbsp;<SPAN
 147 CLASS="CITY"
 148 >Boston</SPAN
 149 >,&nbsp;<SPAN
 150 CLASS="STATE"
 151 >MA</SPAN
 152 >&nbsp;<SPAN
 153 CLASS="POSTCODE"
 154 >02111-1307</SPAN
 155 ><br>
 156 &nbsp;<SPAN
 157 CLASS="COUNTRY"
 158 >USA</SPAN
 159 >&nbsp;</P
 160 ></P
 161 ></DIV
 162 ><DIV
 163 CLASS="SECT2"
 164 ><H2
 165 CLASS="SECT2"
 166 ><A
 167 NAME="HISTORY"
 168 ></A
 169 >12.2. History</H2
 170 ><P
 171 > Along time ago, there was the
 172  <A
 173 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"
 174 TARGET="_top"
 175 ><SPAN
 176 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 177 >Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
 178 ></A
 179 >,
 180  by Anonymous Coders and <A
 181 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/"
 182 TARGET="_top"
 183 >Junkbusters
 184  Corporation</A
 185 >. This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
 186  web advertising and user tracking.</P
 187 ><P
 188 > But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for
 189  forcing  ads on users, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
 190  for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the <SPAN
 191 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 192 >Internet
 193  Junkbuster</SPAN
 194 > did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
 195  (and is) the last official
 196  <A
 197 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release"
 198 TARGET="_top"
 199 >release</A
 200 >
 201  available from <A
 202 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com"
 203 TARGET="_top"
 204 >Junkbusters Corporation</A
 205 >.
 206  Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
 207  <A
 208 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"
 209 TARGET="_top"
 210 > GPL</A
 211 >, which allowed further
 212  development by others.</P
 213 ><P
 214 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
 215  <A
 216 HREF="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/"
 217 TARGET="_top"
 218 >improved version of the
 219  software</A
 220 >, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
 221  It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first
 222  version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the
 223  original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support,
 224  flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release
 225  from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.</P
 226 ><P
 227 > Then, some
 228  <A
 229 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
 230 TARGET="_top"
 231 >developers</A
 232 >
 233  picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
 234  and then reassembled it, adding many
 235  <A
 236 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
 237 TARGET="_top"
 238 >new
 239  features</A
 240 > along the way.</P
 241 ><P
 242 > The result of this is <SPAN
 243 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 244 >Privoxy</SPAN
 245 >, whose first
 246  stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
 247  </P
 248 ></DIV
 249 ><DIV
 250 CLASS="SECT2"
 251 ><H2
 252 CLASS="SECT2"
 253 ><A
 254 NAME="AUTHORS"
 255 ></A
 256 >12.3. Authors</H2
 257 ><P
 258 >Current Developement Team:</P
 259 ><P
 260 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
 261 >&nbsp;Fabian&nbsp;Keil<br>
 262 &nbsp;David&nbsp;Schmidt<br>
 263 <br>
 264 Current&nbsp;Contributors:<br>
 265 <br>
 266 &nbsp;Johny&nbsp;Agotnes&nbsp;<br>
 267 &nbsp;Moritz&nbsp;Barsnick<br>
 268 &nbsp;Hal&nbsp;Burgiss<br>
 269 &nbsp;Mattes&nbsp;Dolak&nbsp;<br>
 270 &nbsp;Roland&nbsp;Rosenfeld<br>&#13;</P
 271 ><P
 272 > Former Project Developers and Contributors:</P
 273 ><P
 274 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
 275 >&nbsp;<br>
 276 &nbsp;Rodrigo&nbsp;Barbosa<br>
 277 &nbsp;Brian&nbsp;Dessent<br>
 278 &nbsp;Jon&nbsp;Foster<br>
 279 &nbsp;Karsten&nbsp;Hopp<br>
 280 &nbsp;Alexander&nbsp;Lazic<br>
 281 &nbsp;Daniel&nbsp;Leite<br>
 282 &nbsp;Gábor&nbsp;Lipták<br>
 283 &nbsp;Adam&nbsp;Lock<br>
 284 &nbsp;Guy&nbsp;Laroche<br>
 285 &nbsp;Andreas&nbsp;Oesterhelt<br>
 286 &nbsp;Haroon&nbsp;Rafique<br>
 287 &nbsp;Georg&nbsp;Sauthoff<br>
 288 &nbsp;Thomas&nbsp;Steudten<br>
 289 &nbsp;Joerg&nbsp;Strohmayer<br>
 290 &nbsp;Rodney&nbsp;Stromlund<br>
 291 &nbsp;Sviatoslav&nbsp;Sviridov<br>
 292 &nbsp;Sarantis&nbsp;Paskalis<br>
 293 &nbsp;Stefan&nbsp;Waldherr</P
 294 ><P
 295 > Based in part on code originally developed by:</P
 296 ><P
 297 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
 298 >&nbsp;Junkbusters&nbsp;Corp.<br>
 299 &nbsp;Anonymous&nbsp;Coders</P
 300 ><P
 301 > Thanks to the many people who have tested Privoxy, reported bugs, or made
 302  suggestions. These include (in alphabetical order):</P
 303 ><P
 304 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
 305 >&nbsp;Ken&nbsp;Arromdee<br>
 306 &nbsp;Devin&nbsp;Bayer<br>
 307 &nbsp;Reiner&nbsp;Buehl<br>
 308 &nbsp;Andrew&nbsp;J.&nbsp;Caines<br>
 309 &nbsp;Clifford&nbsp;Caoile<br>
 310 &nbsp;Michael&nbsp;T.&nbsp;Davis<br>
 311 &nbsp;Brian&nbsp;Dessent<br>
 312 &nbsp;Peter&nbsp;E<br>
 313 &nbsp;Aaron&nbsp;Hamid<br>
 314 &nbsp;Magnus&nbsp;Holmgren<br>
 315 &nbsp;Don&nbsp;Libes&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
 316 &nbsp;Paul&nbsp;Lieverse<br>
 317 &nbsp;David&nbsp;Mediavilla&nbsp;<br>
 318 &nbsp;Oliver&nbsp;Stoeneberg<br>
 319 &nbsp;Roberto&nbsp;Ragusa<br>
 320 &nbsp;Maynard&nbsp;Riley<br>
 321 &nbsp;Bart&nbsp;Schelstraete<br>
 322 &nbsp;Darren&nbsp;Wiebe<br>
 323 &nbsp;Jamie&nbsp;Zawinski</P
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