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- <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="COPYRIGHT" id="COPYRIGHT">9. Privoxy
- Copyright, License and History</a></h1>
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- <p>Copyright © 2001-2013 by Privoxy Developers <code class=
- "EMAIL"><<a href=
- "mailto:ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net">ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net</a>></code></p>
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- <p>Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous
- Coders and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <i class=
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- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is free software; you can
- redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the <i class=
- "CITETITLE">GNU General Public License</i>, version 2, as published by
- the Free Software Foundation.</p>
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- <p>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the <a href=
- "http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html" target=
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- <p>You should have received a copy of the <i class="CITETITLE">GNU
- GPL</i> along with this program; if not, write to the</p>
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- <p class="ADDRESS"> Free Software<br>
- Foundation, Inc. <span class="STREET">51 Franklin
- Street, Fifth Floor</span><br>
- <span class="CITY">Boston</span>, <span class=
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- <span class="COUNTRY">USA</span> </p>
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- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN1252" id="AEN1252">9.2. History</a></h2>
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- <p>A long time ago, there was the <span class="APPLICATION">Internet
- Junkbuster</span>, by Anonymous Coders and Junkbusters Corporation.
- This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of web
- advertising and user tracking.</p>
-
- <p>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
- <span class="APPLICATION">Internet Junkbuster</span> 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 <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html"
- target="_top">GPL</a>, which allowed further development by others.</p>
-
- <p>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.</p>
-
- <p>Then, some <a href=
- "http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS" target=
- "_top">developers</a> picked up the thread, and started turning the
- software inside out, upside down, and then reassembled it, adding many
- <a href="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
- target="_top">new features</a> along the way.</p>
-
- <p>The result of this is <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>,
- whose first stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.</p>
-
- <p>As of 2012 the Junkbusters Corporation's website
- (http://www.junkbusters.com/) has been shut down, but Privoxy is still
- actively maintained.</p>
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