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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 Junkbuster's - 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 ;-).
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Copyright © 2001-2023 by Privoxy Developers <privoxy-devel@lists.privoxy.org>
Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders and Junkbusters, Inc.
+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 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 or OpenSSL 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.
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