- <div class="SECT1">
- <h1 class="SECT1">
- <a name="COPYRIGHT">7. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</a>
- </h1>
- <p>
- Copyright © 2001-2016 by Privoxy Developers <code class=
- "EMAIL"><<a href=
- "mailto:privoxy-devel@lists.privoxy.org">privoxy-devel@lists.privoxy.org</a>></code>
- </p>
- <p>
- Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous
- Coders and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <i class=
- "CITETITLE">GNU General Public License</i>.
- </p>
- <p>
- Portions of this document are <span class="QUOTE">"borrowed"</span>
- from the original <span class="APPLICATION">Junkbuster</span> (tm)
- FAQ, and modified as appropriate for <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>.
- </p>
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2">
- <a name="AEN1505">7.1. License</a>
- </h2>
- <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>
- <p>
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> 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=
- "https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#LICENSE"
- target="_top"><i class="CITETITLE">license</i></a> for details.
- </p>
- </div>
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2">
- <a name="AEN1514">7.2. History</a>
- </h2>
- <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=
- "https://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=
- "https://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>
- </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN1516" id="AEN1516">7.2. History</a></h2>
+ <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=
+ "https://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=
+ "https://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>