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Copyright © 2001 - 2004 by Privoxy Developers <developers@privoxy.org>

Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders + and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the GNU General Public + License.

10.1. Copyright9.1. License

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.

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 + 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 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.

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+ Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place - Suite 330
+ Boston, MA 02111-1307
+ USA 

10.2. History9.2. History

Privoxy is evolved, and derived from, - In the beginning, there was the + the Internet Junkbuster, with many - improvments and enhancements over the original.

Internet Junkbuster, + by Anonymous Coders and Junkbusters + Corporation. It 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 users to consume ads, give up autonomy over their browsing, and + for spying on them, kept 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 Junkbuster's - Corporation, and was released as free open-source software under the - GNU GPL. Junkbusters Corporation. + Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU + GPL, which allowed further + development by others.

So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an + Stefan - Waldherr made many improvements, and started the 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 + SourceForge project - Privoxy to rekindle development. There are now several active - developers contributing. The last stable release of - 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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