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>9. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</A
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-> Copyright © 2001, 2002 by Privoxy Developers <TT
+> Copyright © 2001-2008 by Privoxy Developers <CODE
CLASS="EMAIL"
><<A
-HREF="mailto:developers@privoxy.org"
->developers@privoxy.org</A
->></TT
+HREF="mailto:ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net"
+>ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net</A
+>></CODE
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> Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders
><H2
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><A
-NAME="AEN1061"
+NAME="AEN1223"
>9.1. License</A
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><P
>GNU General Public License</I
> for
- more details, which is available from the Free Software Foundation, Inc, 59
- Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.</P
+ more details, which is available from the Free Software Foundation, Inc,
+51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA</P
><P
> You should have received a copy of the <A
HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"
> Free Software<br>
Foundation, Inc. <SPAN
CLASS="STREET"
->59 Temple Place</SPAN
-> - Suite 330<br>
+>51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor</SPAN
+><br>
<SPAN
CLASS="CITY"
>Boston</SPAN
>MA</SPAN
> <SPAN
CLASS="POSTCODE"
->02111-1307</SPAN
+>02110-1301</SPAN
><br>
<SPAN
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><H2
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><A
-NAME="AEN1077"
+NAME="AEN1239"
>9.2. History</A
></H2
><P
-> <SPAN
-CLASS="APPLICATION"
->Privoxy</SPAN
-> is evolved, and derived from,
- <SPAN
+> A long time ago, there was the
+ <A
+HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"
+TARGET="_top"
+><SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
->the Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
->, with many
- improvments and enhancements over the original.</P
+>Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
+></A
+>,
+ by Anonymous Coders and <A
+HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/"
+TARGET="_top"
+>Junkbusters
+ Corporation</A
+>. This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
+ web advertising and user tracking.</P
><P
-> <SPAN
+> 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"
->Junkbuster</SPAN
-> was originally written by Anonymous
- Coders and <A
+>Internet
+ Junkbuster</SPAN
+> did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
+ (and is) the last official
+ <A
+HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release"
+TARGET="_top"
+>release</A
+>
+ available from <A
HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com"
TARGET="_top"
->Junkbusters
- Corporation</A
->, and was released as free open-source software under the
- GNU GPL. <A
+>Junkbusters Corporation</A
+>.
+ Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
+ <A
+HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"
+TARGET="_top"
+> GPL</A
+>, which allowed further
+ development by others.</P
+><P
+> So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
+ <A
HREF="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/"
TARGET="_top"
->Stefan
- Waldherr</A
-> made many improvements, and started the <A
-HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/"
+>improved version of the
+ software</A
+>, 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"
->SourceForge project
- Privoxy</A
-> to rekindle development. There are now several active
- developers contributing. The last stable release of
- <SPAN
+>new
+ features</A
+> along the way.</P
+><P
+> The result of this is <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
->Junkbuster</SPAN
-> was v2.0.2, which has now
- grown whiskers ;-).</P
+>Privoxy</SPAN
+>, whose first
+ stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
+ </P
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