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 >Privoxy Copyright, License and History</TITLE
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 >12.1. License</A
 ></H2
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 >12.2. History</A
 ></H2
 ><P
-> <SPAN
-CLASS="APPLICATION"
->Privoxy</SPAN
-> is evolved, and derived from, 
- <SPAN
+> In the beginning, 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
+>. It 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  users to consume ads, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
+ for spying on them, kept 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 release, 3.0, is due in May 2002.</P
+></DIV
+><DIV
+CLASS="SECT2"
+><H2
+CLASS="SECT2"
+><A
+NAME="AUTHORS"
+>12.3. Authors</A
+></H2
+><P
+> Current Project Developers:</P
+><P
+CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
+>&nbsp;Jon&nbsp;Foster<br>
+&nbsp;Andreas&nbsp;Oesterhelt<br>
+&nbsp;Stefan&nbsp;Waldherr<br>
+&nbsp;<br>
+&nbsp;Thomas&nbsp;Steudten<br>
+&nbsp;Rodney&nbsp;Stromlund</P
+><P
+> Current Project Contributors:</P
+><P
+CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
+>&nbsp;Rodrigo&nbsp;Barbosa&nbsp;(RPM&nbsp;specfiles)<br>
+&nbsp;Hal&nbsp;Burgiss&nbsp;(docs)<br>
+&nbsp;Alexander&nbsp;Lazic<br>
+&nbsp;Gábor&nbsp;Lipták<br>
+&nbsp;Guy<br>
+&nbsp;Haroon&nbsp;Rafique<br>
+&nbsp;David&nbsp;Schmidt&nbsp;(OS/2,&nbsp;Mac&nbsp;OSX&nbsp;ports)<br>
+&nbsp;Joerg&nbsp;Strohmayer<br>
+&nbsp;Sarantis&nbsp;Paskalis</P
+><P
+> Originally developed by:</P
+><P
+CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
+>&nbsp;Junkbusters&nbsp;Corp.<br>
+&nbsp;Anonymous&nbsp;Coders</P
+><P
+> Thanks to the many people who have tested Privoxy, reported bugs, or made
+ suggestions. These include (in alphabetical order):</P
+><P
+CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
+>&nbsp;Ken&nbsp;Arromdee<br>
+&nbsp;Reiner&nbsp;Buehl<br>
+&nbsp;Andrew&nbsp;J.&nbsp;Caines<br>
+&nbsp;Clifford&nbsp;Caoile<br>
+&nbsp;Peter&nbsp;E<br>
+&nbsp;Aaron&nbsp;Hamid<br>
+&nbsp;Magnus&nbsp;Holmgren<br>
+&nbsp;Paul&nbsp;Lieverse<br>
+&nbsp;Roberto&nbsp;Ragusa<br>
+&nbsp;Bart&nbsp;Schelstraete<br>
+&nbsp;Darren&nbsp;Wiebe</P
 ></DIV
 ></DIV
 ><DIV