Privoxy is free software; you can - redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public - - License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the - License, or (at your option) any later version.
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 GNU General Public License for - more details, which is available from the Free Software Foundation, Inc, 59 - Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License - along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., - 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.
Privoxy is evolved, and derived from, - the Internet Junkbuster, with many - improvments and enhancements over the original.
Junkbuster was originally written by Anonymous - Coders and Junkbusters - Corporation, and was released as free open-source software under the - GNU GPL. Stefan - Waldherr made many improvements, and started the SourceForge project - Privoxy to rekindle development. There are now several active - developers contributing. The last stable release of - Junkbuster was v2.0.2, which has now - grown whiskers ;-).
+ Copyright © 2001-2011 by Privoxy Developers <ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net>
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+ Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous + Coders and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the GNU General Public License. +
++ Privoxy is free software; you can + redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, as published + by the Free Software Foundation. +
++ 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 GNU General Public + License for details. +
++ You should have received a copy of the GNU + GPL along with this program; if not, write to the +
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+ A long time ago, there was the Internet Junkbuster, by Anonymous Coders + and Junkbusters + Corporation. This saved many users a lot of pain in the early + days of web advertising and user tracking. +
++ 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 + Internet Junkbuster did not. + Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was (and is) the last official release available from Junkbusters + Corporation. Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU GPL, which allowed further development by others. +
++ 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. +
++ Then, some developers picked up the thread, and started turning the + software inside out, upside down, and then reassembled it, adding + many new features along the way. +
++ The result of this is Privoxy, + whose first stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002. +
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