Copyright © 2001 - 2006 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.
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 - - 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
Along 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. -
Current Developement Team:
Fabian Keil
- David Schmidt
-
-Current Contributors:
-
- Johny Agotnes
- Moritz Barsnick
- Hal Burgiss
- Mattes Dolak
- Roland Rosenfeld
Former Project Developers and Contributors:
- Rodrigo Barbosa
- Brian Dessent
- Jon Foster
- Karsten Hopp
- Alexander Lazic
- Daniel Leite
- Gábor Lipták
- Adam Lock
- Guy Laroche
- Andreas Oesterhelt
- Haroon Rafique
- Georg Sauthoff
- Thomas Steudten
- Joerg Strohmayer
- Rodney Stromlund
- Sviatoslav Sviridov
- Sarantis Paskalis
- Stefan Waldherr
Based in part on code originally developed by:
Junkbusters Corp.
- Anonymous Coders
Thanks to the many people who have tested Privoxy, reported bugs, or made - suggestions. These include (in alphabetical order):
Ken Arromdee
- Devin Bayer
- Reiner Buehl
- Andrew J. Caines
- Clifford Caoile
- Michael T. Davis
- Brian Dessent
- Peter E
- Aaron Hamid
- Magnus Holmgren
- Don Libes
- Paul Lieverse
- David Mediavilla
- Oliver Stoeneberg
- Roberto Ragusa
- Maynard Riley
- Bart Schelstraete
- Darren Wiebe
- Jamie Zawinski
Copyright © 2001-2011 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.
+ +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
+ + Free Software
+ Foundation, Inc. 51 Franklin
+ Street, Fifth Floor
+ Boston, MA 02110-1301
+ USA
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.
+Current Privoxy Team:
+ +
+ Fabian Keil, lead developer
+ David Schmidt, developer
+ Hal Burgiss
+ Mark Miller
+ Gerry Murphy
+ Lee Rian
+ Roland Rosenfeld
Former Privoxy Team Members:
+ + Johny Agotnes
+ Rodrigo Barbosa
+ Moritz Barsnick
+ Ian Cummings
+ Brian Dessent
+ Jon Foster
+ Karsten Hopp
+ Alexander Lazic
+ Daniel Leite
+ Gábor Lipták
+ Adam Lock
+ Guy Laroche
+ Justin McMurtry
+ Andreas Oesterhelt
+ Haroon Rafique
+ Georg Sauthoff
+ Thomas Steudten
+ Jörg Strohmayer
+ Rodney Stromlund
+ Sviatoslav Sviridov
+ Sarantis Paskalis
+ Stefan Waldherr
Thanks to the many people who have tested Privoxy, reported bugs, + provided patches, made suggestions or contributed in some way. These + include (in alphabetical order):
+ + Ken Arromdee
+ Devin Bayer
+ Havard Berland
+ Gergely Bor
+ Francois Botha
+ Reiner Buehl
+ Andrew J. Caines
+ Clifford Caoile
+ Wan-Teh Chang
+ Frédéric Crozat
+ Michael T. Davis
+ Mattes Dolak
+ Matthias Drochner
+ Peter E.
+ Florian Effenberger
+ Markus Elfring
+ Dean Gaudet
+ Stephen Gildea
+ Daniel Griscom
+ Felix Gröbert
+ Jeff H.
+ Aaron Hamid
+ Darel Henman
+ Magnus Holmgren
+ Eric M. Hopper
+ Ralf Horstmann
+ Stefan Huehner
+ Peter Hyman
+ Derek Jennings
+ Petr Kadlec
+ David Laight
+ Bert van Leeuwen
+ Don Libes
+ Paul Lieverse
+ Toby Lyward
+ Wil Mahan
+ Jindrich Makovicka
+ Francois Marier
+ David Mediavilla
+ Raphael Moll
+ Amuro Namie
+ Adam Piggott
+ Petr Písar
+ Dan Price
+ Roberto Ragusa
+ Félix Rauch
+ Maynard Riley
+ Chung-chieh Shan
+ Spinor S.
+ Bart Schelstraete
+ Oliver Stoeneberg
+ Peter Thoenen
+ Martin Thomas
+ Bobby G. Vinyard
+ Jochen Voss
+ Glenn Washburn
+ Song Weijia
+ Jörg Weinmann
+ Darren Wiebe
+ Anduin Withers
+ Oliver Yeoh
+ Jamie Zawinski
Privoxy is based in part on code originally developed by Junkbusters + Corp. and Anonymous Coders.
+ +Privoxy heavily relies on Philip Hazel's PCRE.
+ +The code to filter compressed content makes use of zlib which is + written by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.
+ +On systems that lack snprintf(), Privoxy is using a version written + by Mark Martinec. On systems that lack strptime(), Privoxy is using the + one from the GNU C Library written by Ulrich Drepper.
+