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-></A
->7. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</H1
+>7. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</A
+></H1
><P
-> Copyright © 2001 - 2006 by Privoxy Developers <TT
+> Copyright © 2001-2017 by Privoxy Developers <CODE
CLASS="EMAIL"
><<A
-HREF="mailto:ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net"
->ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net</A
->></TT
+HREF="mailto:privoxy-devel@lists.privoxy.org"
+>privoxy-devel@lists.privoxy.org</A
+>></CODE
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><P
> Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders
<SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>Junkbuster</SPAN
-> (tm) FAQ, and modified as
+> (tm) FAQ, and modified as
appropriate for <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>Privoxy</SPAN
><H2
CLASS="SECT2"
><A
-NAME="AEN1209"
-></A
->7.1. License</H2
+NAME="AEN1501"
+>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
-> 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
+ redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
<I
CLASS="CITETITLE"
>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
+>, version 2,
+ as published by the Free Software Foundation.</P
><P
-> You should have received a copy of the <A
-HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"
+> <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"
->GNU General Public License</I
+>license</I
></A
->
- along with this program; if not, write to the <P
-CLASS="ADDRESS"
-> Free Software<br>
- Foundation, Inc. <SPAN
-CLASS="STREET"
->59 Temple Place</SPAN
-> - Suite 330<br>
- <SPAN
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->Boston</SPAN
->, <SPAN
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->MA</SPAN
-> <SPAN
-CLASS="POSTCODE"
->02111-1307</SPAN
-><br>
- <SPAN
-CLASS="COUNTRY"
->USA</SPAN
-> </P
-></P
+> for details.</P
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><DIV
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><H2
CLASS="SECT2"
><A
-NAME="AEN1225"
-></A
->7.2. History</H2
+NAME="AEN1510"
+>7.2. History</A
+></H2
><P
-> Along time ago, there was the
- <A
-HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"
-TARGET="_top"
-><SPAN
+> A long time ago, there was the <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
+>,
+ 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
+ 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
->.
+> 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/gpl.html"
+HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html"
TARGET="_top"
-> GPL</A
->, which allowed further
- development by others.</P
+>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"
->improved version of the
- software</A
->, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
+> 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,
><P
> Then, some
<A
-HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
+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="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
+HREF="https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
TARGET="_top"
>new
features</A
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>Privoxy</SPAN
>, whose first
- stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
+ 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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></DIV
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