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<h1 class="SECT1"><a name="COPYRIGHT" id="COPYRIGHT">7. Privoxy
Copyright, License and History</a></h1>
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- <p>Copyright © 2001-2011 by Privoxy Developers <code class=
+ <p>Copyright � 2001-2017 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=
- "CITETITLE">GNU General Public License</i>.</p>
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+ "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>
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- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN1475" id="AEN1475">7.1. License</a></h2>
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+ <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN1507" id="AEN1507">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>
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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=
- "_top"><i class="CITETITLE">GNU General Public License</i></a> for
- details.</p>
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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=
- "STATE">MA</span> <span class="POSTCODE">02110-1301</span><br>
- <span class="COUNTRY">USA</span> </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>
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- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN1491" id="AEN1491">7.2. History</a></h2>
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- <p>A long time ago, there was the <a href=
- "http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html" target="_top"><span class=
- "APPLICATION">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>
-
+ <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 (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>. 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>
-
+ 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
support, flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The
last release from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in
2000.</p>
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<p>Then, some <a href=
- "http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS" target=
+ "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="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
+ <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>
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