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- Written by and Copyright (C) 2001 the SourceForge
- Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/
+ $Id: history.sgml,v 2.8 2011/09/04 11:10:12 fabiankeil Exp $
- Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written
- by and Copyright (C) 1997 Anonymous Coders and
- Junkbusters Corporation. http://www.junkbusters.com
+ Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/
+ See LICENSE.
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<para>
- <application>Privoxy</application> is evolved, and derived from,
- <application>the Internet Junkbuster</application>, with many
- improvments and enhancements over the original.
+ A long time ago, there was the <application>Internet Junkbuster</application>,
+ by Anonymous Coders and Junkbusters Corporation. This saved many users a lot of
+ pain in the early days of web advertising and user tracking.
</para>
<para>
- <application>Junkbuster</application> was originally written by Anonymous
- Coders and <ulink
- url="http://www.junkbusters.com">Junkbusters
- Corporation</ulink>, and was released as free open-source software under the
- GNU GPL. <ulink url="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/">Stefan
- Waldherr</ulink> made many improvements, and started the <ulink
- url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/">SourceForge project
- Privoxy</ulink> to rekindle development. There are now several active
- developers contributing. The last stable release of
- <application>Junkbuster</application> was v2.0.2, which has now
- grown whiskers ;-).
+ 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 <application>Internet
+ Junkbuster</application> 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
+ <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html">GPL</ulink>,
+ which allowed further development by others.
</para>
+<para>
+ 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.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ Then, some
+ <ulink url="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS">developers</ulink>
+ picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
+ and then reassembled it, adding many
+ <ulink url="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES">new
+ features</ulink> along the way.
+</para>
+<para>
+ The result of this is <application>Privoxy</application>, whose first
+ stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
+ <!-- Cautious!!!!!!!!! ;) -->
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ As of 2012 the Junkbusters Corporation's website (http://www.junkbusters.com/)
+ has been shut down, but Privoxy is still actively maintained.
+</para>
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