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78 > Copyright, License and History</A
81 > Copyright © 2001, 2002 by Privoxy Developers <TT
84 HREF="mailto:developers@privoxy.org"
85 >developers@privoxy.org</A
89 > Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders
90 and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <I
107 > is free software; you can
108 redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
113 >, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.</P
115 > This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
116 ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
117 FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
120 >GNU General Public License</I
123 more details, which is available from the Free Software Foundation, Inc, 59
124 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.</P
126 > You should have received a copy of the <A
127 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"
131 >GNU General Public License</I
134 along with this program; if not, write to the <P
136 > Free Software<br>
137 Foundation, Inc. <SPAN
139 >59 Temple Place</SPAN
140 > - Suite 330<br>
166 > In the beginning, there was the
168 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"
172 >Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
175 by Anonymous Coders and <A
176 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/"
180 >. It saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
181 web advertising and user tracking.</P
183 > But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for
184 forcing users to consume ads, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
185 for spying on them, kept evolving. Unfortunately, the <SPAN
189 > did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
190 (and is) the last official
192 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release"
197 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com"
199 >Junkbusters Corporation</A
201 Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
203 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"
206 >, which allowed further
207 development by others.</P
209 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
211 HREF="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/"
213 >improved version of the
215 >, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
216 It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first
217 version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the
218 original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support,
219 flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release
220 from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.</P
224 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
228 picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
229 and then reassembled it, adding many
231 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
237 > The result of this is <SPAN
241 stable release, 3.0, is due in May 2002.</P
252 > Current Project Developers:</P
254 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
255 > Jon Foster<br>
256 Andreas Oesterhelt<br>
257 Stefan Waldherr<br>
259 Thomas Steudten<br>
260 Rodney Stromlund</P
262 > Current Project Contributors:</P
264 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
265 > Rodrigo Barbosa (RPM specfiles)<br>
266 Hal Burgiss (docs)<br>
267 Alexander Lazic<br>
268 Gábor Lipták<br>
270 Haroon Rafique<br>
271 David Schmidt (OS/2, Mac OSX ports)<br>
272 Joerg Strohmayer<br>
273 Sarantis Paskalis</P
275 > Originally developed by:</P
277 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
278 > Junkbusters Corp.<br>
279 Anonymous Coders</P
281 > Thanks to the many people who have tested Privoxy, reported bugs, or made
282 suggestions. These include (in alphabetical order):</P
284 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
285 > Ken Arromdee<br>
286 Reiner Buehl<br>
287 Andrew J. Caines<br>
288 Clifford Caoile<br>
289 Peter E<br>
290 Aaron Hamid<br>
291 Magnus Holmgren<br>
292 Paul Lieverse<br>
293 Roberto Ragusa<br>
294 Bart Schelstraete<br>
295 Darren Wiebe</P
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