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Copyright © 2001-2013 by Privoxy Developers <ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net>
Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous - Coders and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the GNU General Public License.
- -Portions of this document are "borrowed"
- from the original Junkbuster (tm) FAQ,
- and modified as appropriate for 7. Privoxy Copyright, License and History
+ Copyright © 2001-2020 by Privoxy Developers Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed
+ under the GNU General Public License. Portions of this document are "borrowed" from the original Junkbuster (tm) FAQ, and modified as appropriate for Privoxy. 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. Privoxy 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 license for details. Privoxy is free software; you can redistribute and/or modify its source code
+ 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. The same is true for Privoxy binaries unless they are linked with a mbed TLS version that is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license in which
+ case you can redistribute and/or modify the Privoxy binaries under the terms of
+ the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either
+ version 3 of the license, or (at your option) any later version. Privoxy 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
+ license for details. 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 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. As of 2012 the Junkbusters Corporation's website
- (http://www.junkbusters.com/) has been shut down, but Privoxy is still
- actively maintained. 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 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. As of 2012 the Junkbusters Corporation's website (http://www.junkbusters.com/) has been shut down, but Privoxy
+ is still actively maintained.<privoxy-devel@lists.privoxy.org>7.1. License
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- 7.1. License
+ 7.2. History
-
- 7.2. History
+