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  76 ><A
  77 NAME="COPYRIGHT">12. <SPAN
  78 CLASS="APPLICATION"
  79 >Privoxy</SPAN
  80 > Copyright, License and History</H1
  81 ><P
  82 > Copyright © 2001, 2002 by Privoxy Developers <TT
  83 CLASS="EMAIL"
  84 >&#60;<A
  85 HREF="mailto:developers@privoxy.org"
  86 >developers@privoxy.org</A
  87 >&#62;</TT
  88 ></P
  89 ><P
  90 > Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders
  91  and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <I
  92 CLASS="CITETITLE"
  93 >GNU General Public
  94  License</I
  95 >.</P
  96 ><DIV
  97 CLASS="SECT2"
  98 ><H2
  99 CLASS="SECT2"
 100 ><A
 101 NAME="AEN3220">12.1. License</H2
 102 ><P
 103 > <SPAN
 104 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 105 >Privoxy</SPAN
 106 > is free software; you can
 107  redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
 108  <I
 109 CLASS="CITETITLE"
 110 >GNU General Public
 111  License</I
 112 >, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.</P
 113 ><P
 114 > This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
 115  ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
 116  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 117  <I
 118 CLASS="CITETITLE"
 119 >GNU General Public License</I
 120 > for
 121
 122  more details, which is available from the Free Software Foundation, Inc, 59
 123  Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.</P
 124 ><P
 125 > You should have received a copy of the <A
 126 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"
 127 TARGET="_top"
 128 > <I
 129 CLASS="CITETITLE"
 130 >GNU General Public License</I
 131 ></A
 132 >
 133  along with this program; if not, write to the <P
 134 CLASS="ADDRESS"
 135 >&nbsp;Free&nbsp;Software<br>
 136 &nbsp;Foundation,&nbsp;Inc.&nbsp;<SPAN
 137 CLASS="STREET"
 138 >59 Temple Place</SPAN
 139 >&nbsp;-&nbsp;Suite&nbsp;330<br>
 140 &nbsp;<SPAN
 141 CLASS="CITY"
 142 >Boston</SPAN
 143 >,&nbsp;<SPAN
 144 CLASS="STATE"
 145 >MA</SPAN
 146 >&nbsp;<SPAN
 147 CLASS="POSTCODE"
 148 >02111-1307</SPAN
 149 ><br>
 150 &nbsp;<SPAN
 151 CLASS="COUNTRY"
 152 >USA</SPAN
 153 >&nbsp;</P
 154 ></P
 155 ></DIV
 156 ><DIV
 157 CLASS="SECT2"
 158 ><H2
 159 CLASS="SECT2"
 160 ><A
 161 NAME="HISTORY">12.2. History</H2
 162 ><P
 163 > In the beginning, there was the
 164  <A
 165 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"
 166 TARGET="_top"
 167 ><SPAN
 168 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 169 >Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
 170 ></A
 171 >,
 172  by Anonymous Coders and <A
 173 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/"
 174 TARGET="_top"
 175 >Junkbusters
 176  Corporation</A
 177 >. It saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
 178  web advertising and user tracking.</P
 179 ><P
 180 > But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for
 181  forcing  users to consume ads, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
 182  for spying on them, kept evolving. Unfortunately, the <SPAN
 183 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 184 >Internet
 185  Junkbuster</SPAN
 186 > did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
 187  (and is) the last official
 188  <A
 189 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release"
 190 TARGET="_top"
 191 >release</A
 192 >
 193  available from <A
 194 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com"
 195 TARGET="_top"
 196 >Junkbusters Corporation</A
 197 >.
 198  Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
 199  <A
 200 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"
 201 TARGET="_top"
 202 > GPL</A
 203 >, which allowed further
 204  development by others.</P
 205 ><P
 206 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
 207  <A
 208 HREF="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/"
 209 TARGET="_top"
 210 >improved version of the
 211  software</A
 212 >, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
 213  It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first
 214  version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the
 215  original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support,
 216  flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release
 217  from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.</P
 218 ><P
 219 > Then, some
 220  <A
 221 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
 222 TARGET="_top"
 223 >developers</A
 224 >
 225  picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
 226  and then reassembled it, adding many
 227  <A
 228 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
 229 TARGET="_top"
 230 >new
 231  features</A
 232 > along the way.</P
 233 ><P
 234 > The result of this is <SPAN
 235 CLASS="APPLICATION"
 236 >Privoxy</SPAN
 237 >, whose first
 238  stable release, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
 239  </P
 240 ></DIV
 241 ><DIV
 242 CLASS="SECT2"
 243 ><H2
 244 CLASS="SECT2"
 245 ><A
 246 NAME="AUTHORS">12.3. Authors</H2
 247 ><P
 248 > Current Project Developers:</P
 249 ><P
 250 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
 251 >&nbsp;Jon&nbsp;Foster<br>
 252 &nbsp;Andreas&nbsp;Oesterhelt<br>
 253 &nbsp;Stefan&nbsp;Waldherr<br>
 254 &nbsp;<br>
 255 &nbsp;Thomas&nbsp;Steudten<br>
 256 &nbsp;Rodney&nbsp;Stromlund</P
 257 ><P
 258 > Current Project Contributors:</P
 259 ><P
 260 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
 261 >&nbsp;Rodrigo&nbsp;Barbosa&nbsp;(RPM&nbsp;specfiles)<br>
 262 &nbsp;Moritz&nbsp;Barsnick<br>
 263 &nbsp;Hal&nbsp;Burgiss&nbsp;(docs)<br>
 264 &nbsp;Karsten&nbsp;Hopp&nbsp;(Red&nbsp;Hat)<br>
 265 &nbsp;Alexander&nbsp;Lazic<br>
 266 &nbsp;Gábor&nbsp;Lipták<br>
 267 &nbsp;Guy<br>
 268 &nbsp;Haroon&nbsp;Rafique<br>
 269 &nbsp;Roland&nbsp;Rosenfeld&nbsp;(Debian)<br>
 270 &nbsp;Georg&nbsp;Sauthoff&nbsp;(Gentoo)<br>
 271 &nbsp;David&nbsp;Schmidt&nbsp;(OS/2,&nbsp;Mac&nbsp;OSX&nbsp;ports)<br>
 272 &nbsp;Joerg&nbsp;Strohmayer&nbsp;(Amiga)<br>
 273 &nbsp;Sarantis&nbsp;Paskalis</P
 274 ><P
 275 > Based in part on code originally developed by:</P
 276 ><P
 277 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
 278 >&nbsp;Junkbusters&nbsp;Corp.<br>
 279 &nbsp;Anonymous&nbsp;Coders</P
 280 ><P
 281 > Thanks to the many people who have tested Privoxy, reported bugs, or made
 282  suggestions. These include (in alphabetical order):</P
 283 ><P
 284 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
 285 >&nbsp;Ken&nbsp;Arromdee<br>
 286 &nbsp;Devin&nbsp;Bayer<br>
 287 &nbsp;Reiner&nbsp;Buehl<br>
 288 &nbsp;Andrew&nbsp;J.&nbsp;Caines<br>
 289 &nbsp;Clifford&nbsp;Caoile<br>
 290 &nbsp;Michael&nbsp;T.&nbsp;Davis<br>
 291 &nbsp;Peter&nbsp;E<br>
 292 &nbsp;Aaron&nbsp;Hamid<br>
 293 &nbsp;Magnus&nbsp;Holmgren<br>
 294 &nbsp;Daniel&nbsp;Leite<br>
 295 &nbsp;Paul&nbsp;Lieverse<br>
 296 &nbsp;David&nbsp;Mediavilla&nbsp;<br>
 297 &nbsp;Roberto&nbsp;Ragusa<br>
 298 &nbsp;Maynard&nbsp;Riley<br>
 299 &nbsp;Bart&nbsp;Schelstraete<br>
 300 &nbsp;Darren&nbsp;Wiebe<br>
 301 &nbsp;Jamie&nbsp;Zawinski</P
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