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-> Copyright © 2001-2007 by Privoxy Developers <CODE
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-> Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders
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-> Portions of this document are <SPAN
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->"borrowed"</SPAN
-> from the original
- <SPAN
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->Junkbuster</SPAN
-> (tm) FAQ, and modified as
- appropriate for <SPAN
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->Privoxy</SPAN
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->7.1. License</A
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-> <SPAN
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-> is free software; you can
- redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
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->, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.</P
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-> A long time ago, there was the
- <A
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-><SPAN
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->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
-> 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
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->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"
->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"
->new
- features</A
-> along the way.</P
-><P
-> The result of this is <SPAN
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->Privoxy</SPAN
->, whose first
- stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
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+<head>
+ <title>Privoxy Copyright, License and History</title>
+ <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
+ <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions" href="index.html">
+ <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Contacting the developers, Bug Reporting and Feature Requests" href="contact.html">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
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+ <div class="NAVHEADER">
+ <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <th colspan="3" align="center">Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions</th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href="contact.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
+ <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom"></td>
+ <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"> </td>
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+ </table>
+ <hr align="left" width="100%">
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="COPYRIGHT" id="COPYRIGHT">7. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</a></h1>
+ <p>Copyright © 2001-2019 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="AEN1499" id="AEN1499">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="AEN1508" id="AEN1508">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>
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+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"> </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">Contacting the developers, Bug Reporting and Feature Requests</td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"> </td>
+ </tr>
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