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Prev9. Privoxy Copyright, License and History

Copyright © 2001, 2002 by Privoxy Developers Copyright © 2001-2010 by Privoxy Developers

Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders @@ -93,7 +99,7 @@ CLASS="SECT2" >

9.1. License

GNU General Public - License, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.

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 - - 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 for details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU GPL along with this program; if not, write to the

 Free Software
 Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place - Suite 330
+>51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor
 BostonMA 02111-130702110-1301
 

9.2. History

Privoxy is evolved, and derived from, - A long time ago, there was the + the Internet Junkbuster, with many - improvments and enhancements over the original.

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 Junkbuster was originally written by Anonymous - Coders and Internet + Junkbuster did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was + (and is) the last official + release + available from Junkbusters - Corporation, and was released as free open-source software under the - GNU GPL. Junkbusters Corporation. + Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU + Stefan - Waldherr made many improvements, and started the 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 + SourceForge project - Privoxy to rekindle development. There are now several active - developers contributing. The last stable release of - 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 Junkbuster was v2.0.2, which has now - grown whiskers ;-).

Privoxy, whose first + stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002. +

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