12. Privoxy Copyright, License and History

Copyright © 2001-2016 by Privoxy Developers

Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the GNU General Public License.

Privoxy is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation and included in the next section.

12.1. License

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12.2. History

A long time ago, there was the Internet Junkbuster, by Anonymous Coders and Junkbusters Corporation. This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of web advertising and user tracking.

But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their browsing, and for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the Internet Junkbuster did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was the last official release, available from Junkbusters Corporation. Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU GPL, which allowed further development by others.

So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an improved version of the software, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches. It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support, flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.

Then, some developers picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down, and then reassembled it, adding many new features along the way.

The result of this is Privoxy, whose first stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.

As of 2012 the Junkbusters Corporation's website (http://www.junkbusters.com/) has been shut down, but Privoxy is still actively maintained.

12.3. Authors

Current Privoxy Team:

 Fabian Keil, lead developer
 David Schmidt
 Hal Burgiss
 Lee Rian
 Roland Rosenfeld
 Ian Silvester

Former Privoxy Team Members:

 Johny Agotnes
 Rodrigo Barbosa
 Moritz Barsnick
 Ian Cummings
 Brian Dessent
 Jon Foster
 Karsten Hopp
 Alexander Lazic
 Daniel Leite
 Gábor Lipták
 Adam Lock
 Guy Laroche
 Justin McMurtry
 Mark Miller
 Gerry Murphy
 Andreas Oesterhelt
 Haroon Rafique
 Georg Sauthoff
 Thomas Steudten
 Jörg Strohmayer
 Rodney Stromlund
 Sviatoslav Sviridov
 Sarantis Paskalis
 Stefan Waldherr

Thanks to the many people who have tested Privoxy, reported bugs, provided patches, made suggestions, donated or contributed in some other way. These include (in alphabetical order):

 Rustam Abdullaev
 Anatoly Arzhnikov
 Ken Arromdee
 Natxo Asenjo
 Devin Bayer
 Havard Berland
 David Bo
 Gergely Bor
 Francois Botha
 Reiner Buehl
 Andrew J. Caines
 Clifford Caoile
 Edward Carrel
 Pak Chan
 Wan-Teh Chang
 Sam Chen
 Ramkumar Chinchani
 Billy Crook
 Frédéric Crozat
 Matthew Daley
 Michael T. Davis
 Markus Dittrich
 Mattes Dolak
 Matthias Drochner
 Peter E.
 Florian Effenberger
 Markus Elfring
 Ryan Farmer
 Matthew Fischer
 Dean Gaudet
 Stephen Gildea
 John McGowan
 Lizik Grelier
 Daniel Griscom
 Felix Gröbert
 Bernard Guillot
 Jeff H.
 Tim H.
 Aaron Hamid
 Basil Hussain
 Darel Henman
 Magnus Holmgren
 Eric M. Hopper
 Ralf Horstmann
 Stefan Huehner
 Peter Hyman
 Derek Jennings
 Andrew Jones
 Julien Joubert
 Ralf Jungblut
 Petr Kadlec
 Robert Klemme
 Steven Kolins
 Korda
 Stefan Kurtz
 Zeno Kugy
 David Laight
 Bert van Leeuwen
 Don Libes
 Paul Lieverse
 Han Liu
 Toby Lyward
 Wil Mahan
 Jindrich Makovicka
 Raphael Marichez
 Francois Marier
 Angelina Matson
 Jonathan McKenzie
 David Mediavilla
 J. Momberger
 Raphael Moll
 Mathew Murphy
 Amuro Namie
 Mark Nelson
 Adam Piggott
 Petr Písar
 Dan Price
 Kai Raven
 Roberto Ragusa
 Félix Rauch
 Chris John Riley
 Maynard Riley
 Andreas Rutkauskas
 Bart Schelstraete
 Gregory Seidman
 Chung-chieh Shan
 Benjamin C. Wiley Sittler
 Simon South
 Dan Stahlke
 Oliver Stoeneberg
 Rick Sykes
 Spinor S.
 Peter Thoenen
 Martin Thomas
 Reuben Thomas
 Guybrush Threepwood
 Joel Verhagen
 Bobby G. Vinyard
 Jochen Voss
 David Wagner
 Glenn Washburn
 Song Weijia
 Jörg Weinmann
 Darren Wiebe
 Anduin Withers
 Yang Xia
 Jarry Xu
 Oliver Yeoh
 Jamie Zawinski
 Eduard Wulff

Privoxy is based in part on code originally developed by Junkbusters Corp. and Anonymous Coders.

Privoxy heavily relies on Philip Hazel's PCRE.

The code to filter compressed content makes use of zlib which is written by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.

On systems that lack snprintf(), Privoxy is using a version written by Mark Martinec. On systems that lack strptime(), Privoxy is using the one from the GNU C Library written by Ulrich Drepper.