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  78 ><A
  79 NAME="COPYRIGHT"
  80 >12. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</A
  81 ></H1
  82 ><P
  83 > Copyright © 2001-2007 by Privoxy Developers <CODE
  84 CLASS="EMAIL"
  85 >&#60;<A
  86 HREF="mailto:ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net"
  87 >ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net</A
  88 >&#62;</CODE
  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
 100 CLASS="SECT2"
 101 ><A
 102 NAME="AEN5089"
 103 >12.1. License</A
 104 ></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"
 130 TARGET="_top"
 131 > <I
 132 CLASS="CITETITLE"
 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
 159 ><DIV
 160 CLASS="SECT2"
 161 ><H2
 162 CLASS="SECT2"
 163 ><A
 164 NAME="HISTORY"
 165 >12.2. History</A
 166 ></H2
 167 ><P
 168 > A long 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"
 234 TARGET="_top"
 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
 245 ></DIV
 246 ><DIV
 247 CLASS="SECT2"
 248 ><H2
 249 CLASS="SECT2"
 250 ><A
 251 NAME="AUTHORS"
 252 >12.3. Authors</A
 253 ></H2
 254 ><P
 255 >Current Privoxy Team:</P
 256 ><P
 257 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
 258 >&nbsp;Fabian&nbsp;Keil,&nbsp;lead&nbsp;developer<br>
 259 &nbsp;David&nbsp;Schmidt,&nbsp;developer<br>
 260 &nbsp;<br>
 261 &nbsp;Hal&nbsp;Burgiss<br>
 262 &nbsp;Roland&nbsp;Rosenfeld<br>
 263 &nbsp;Jörg&nbsp;Strohmayer</P
 264 ><P
 265 > Former Privoxy Team Members:</P
 266 ><P
 267 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
 268 >&nbsp;Johny&nbsp;Agotnes&nbsp;<br>
 269 &nbsp;Rodrigo&nbsp;Barbosa<br>
 270 &nbsp;Moritz&nbsp;Barsnick<br>
 271 &nbsp;Ian&nbsp;Cummings<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;Justin&nbsp;McMurtry<br>
 282 &nbsp;Andreas&nbsp;Oesterhelt<br>
 283 &nbsp;Haroon&nbsp;Rafique<br>
 284 &nbsp;Georg&nbsp;Sauthoff<br>
 285 &nbsp;Thomas&nbsp;Steudten<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, provided
 292  patches, made suggestions or contributed in some way. These include (in
 293  alphabetical order):</P
 294 ><P
 295 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
 296 >&nbsp;Ken&nbsp;Arromdee<br>
 297 &nbsp;Devin&nbsp;Bayer<br>
 298 &nbsp;Gergely&nbsp;Bor<br>
 299 &nbsp;Reiner&nbsp;Buehl<br>
 300 &nbsp;Andrew&nbsp;J.&nbsp;Caines<br>
 301 &nbsp;Clifford&nbsp;Caoile<br>
 302 &nbsp;Frédéric&nbsp;Crozat<br>
 303 &nbsp;Michael&nbsp;T.&nbsp;Davis<br>
 304 &nbsp;Mattes&nbsp;Dolak&nbsp;<br>
 305 &nbsp;Peter&nbsp;E.<br>
 306 &nbsp;Florian&nbsp;Effenberger<br>
 307 &nbsp;Markus&nbsp;Elfring<br>
 308 &nbsp;Dean&nbsp;Gaudet<br>
 309 &nbsp;Stephen&nbsp;Gildea<br>
 310 &nbsp;Daniel&nbsp;Griscom<br>
 311 &nbsp;Felix&nbsp;Gröbert<br>
 312 &nbsp;Aaron&nbsp;Hamid<br>
 313 &nbsp;Darel&nbsp;Henman<br>
 314 &nbsp;Magnus&nbsp;Holmgren<br>
 315 &nbsp;Ralf&nbsp;Horstmann<br>
 316 &nbsp;Stefan&nbsp;Huehner&nbsp;<br>
 317 &nbsp;Peter&nbsp;Hyman<br>
 318 &nbsp;Derek&nbsp;Jennings<br>
 319 &nbsp;Petr&nbsp;Kadlec<br>
 320 &nbsp;David&nbsp;Laight<br>
 321 &nbsp;Bert&nbsp;van&nbsp;Leeuwen<br>
 322 &nbsp;Don&nbsp;Libes&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
 323 &nbsp;Paul&nbsp;Lieverse<br>
 324 &nbsp;Toby&nbsp;Lyward<br>
 325 &nbsp;Wil&nbsp;Mahan<br>
 326 &nbsp;Jindrich&nbsp;Makovicka&nbsp;<br>
 327 &nbsp;David&nbsp;Mediavilla&nbsp;<br>
 328 &nbsp;Raphael&nbsp;Moll<br>
 329 &nbsp;Amuro&nbsp;Namie<br>
 330 &nbsp;Adam&nbsp;Piggott<br>
 331 &nbsp;Dan&nbsp;Price<br>
 332 &nbsp;Lee&nbsp;R.<br>
 333 &nbsp;Roberto&nbsp;Ragusa<br>
 334 &nbsp;Félix&nbsp;Rauch<br>
 335 &nbsp;Maynard&nbsp;Riley<br>
 336 &nbsp;Chung-chieh&nbsp;Shan<br>
 337 &nbsp;Spinor&nbsp;S.<br>
 338 &nbsp;Bart&nbsp;Schelstraete<br>
 339 &nbsp;Oliver&nbsp;Stoeneberg<br>
 340 &nbsp;Peter&nbsp;Thoenen<br>
 341 &nbsp;Martin&nbsp;Thomas<br>
 342 &nbsp;Song&nbsp;Weijia<br>
 343 &nbsp;Jörg&nbsp;Weinmann&nbsp;<br>
 344 &nbsp;Darren&nbsp;Wiebe<br>
 345 &nbsp;Bobby&nbsp;G.&nbsp;Vinyard<br>
 346 &nbsp;Anduin&nbsp;Withers<br>
 347 &nbsp;Oliver&nbsp;Yeoh<br>
 348 &nbsp;Jamie&nbsp;Zawinski</P
 349 ><P
 350 > Privoxy is based in part on code originally developed by
 351  Junkbusters Corp. and Anonymous Coders.</P
 352 ><P
 353 > Privoxy heavily relies on Philip Hazel's PCRE.</P
 354 ><P
 355 > The code to filter compressed content makes use of zlib
 356  which is written by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.</P
 357 ><P
 358 > On systems that lack snprintf(), Privoxy is using a version
 359  written by Mark Martinec. On systems that lack strptime(),
 360  Privoxy is using the one from the GNU C Library written
 361  by Ulrich Drepper.</P
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