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12. Privoxy + Copyright, License and History

Some source code is based on code Copyright ï¿½ 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 and included in the next section.

12.1. License

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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, version 2, as published - by the Free Software Foundation and included in the next section. -

- 12.1. License -

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-                     GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
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+            GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
                        Version 2, June 1991
 
  Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
@@ -408,270 +390,229 @@ proprietary programs.  If your program is a subroutine library, you may
 consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
 library.  If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General
 Public License instead of this License.
-

- 12.2. History -

- 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. -

- 12.3. Authors -

- Current Privoxy Team: -

- Fabian Keil, lead developer
- David Schmidt
- Hal Burgiss
- Lee Rian
- Roland Rosenfeld
- Ian Silvester -

- 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
- Mark Miller
- Gerry Murphy
- 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, donated or contributed in some - other way. These include (in alphabetical order): -

- Rustam Abdullaev
- Anatoly Arzhnikov
- Ken Arromdee
- Natxo Asenjo
- Devin Bayer
- Havard Berland
- David Bo
- Gergely Bor
- Francois Botha
- Reiner Buehl
- Andrew J. Caines
- Clifford Caoile
- Edward Carrel
- Pak Chan
- Wan-Teh Chang
- Sam Chen
- Ramkumar Chinchani
- Billy Crook
- Frédéric Crozat
- Matthew Daley
- Michael T. Davis
- Markus Dittrich
- Mattes Dolak
- Matthias Drochner
- Peter E.
- Florian Effenberger
- Markus Elfring
- Ryan Farmer
- Matthew Fischer
- Dean Gaudet
- Stephen Gildea
- John McGowan
- Lizik Grelier
- Daniel Griscom
- Felix Gröbert
- Bernard Guillot
- Jeff H.
- Tim H.
- Aaron Hamid
- Basil Hussain
- Darel Henman
- Magnus Holmgren
- Eric M. Hopper
- Ralf Horstmann
- Stefan Huehner
- Peter Hyman
- Derek Jennings
- Andrew Jones
- Julien Joubert
- Ralf Jungblut
- Petr Kadlec
- Robert Klemme
- Steven Kolins
- Korda
- Stefan Kurtz
- Zeno Kugy
- David Laight
- Bert van Leeuwen
- Don Libes
- Paul Lieverse
- Han Liu
- Toby Lyward
- Wil Mahan
- Jindrich Makovicka
- Raphael Marichez
- Francois Marier
- Angelina Matson
- Jonathan McKenzie
- David Mediavilla
- J. Momberger
- Raphael Moll
- Mathew Murphy
- Amuro Namie
- Mark Nelson
- Adam Piggott
- Petr Písar
- Dan Price
- Kai Raven
- Roberto Ragusa
- Félix Rauch
- Marvin Renich
- Chris John Riley
- Maynard Riley
- Andreas Rutkauskas
- Bart Schelstraete
- Gregory Seidman
- Atman Sense
- Chung-chieh Shan
- Benjamin C. Wiley Sittler
- Simon South
- Dan Stahlke
- Oliver Stoeneberg
- Rick Sykes
- Spinor S.
- Peter Thoenen
- Martin Thomas
- Reuben Thomas
- Guybrush Threepwood
- Joel Verhagen
- Bobby G. Vinyard
- Jochen Voss
- David Wagner
- Glenn Washburn
- Song Weijia
- Jörg Weinmann
- Darren Wiebe
- Anduin Withers
- Yang Xia
- Jarry Xu
- Oliver Yeoh
- Jamie Zawinski
- Eduard Wulff -

- 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. -

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- +

12.2. History

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.

12.3. Authors

Current Privoxy Team:

+ Fabian Keil, lead developer
+ David Schmidt
+ Hal Burgiss
+ Lee Rian
+ Roland Rosenfeld
+ Ian Silvester

Former Privoxy Team Members:

Johny Agotnes
+ Rodrigo Barbosa
+ Moritz Barsnick
+ Ian Cummings
+ Brian Dessent
+ Jon Foster
+ Karsten Hopp
+ Alexander Lazic
+ Daniel Leite
+ Gï¿½bor Liptï¿½k
+ Adam Lock
+ Guy Laroche
+ Justin McMurtry
+ Mark Miller
+ Gerry Murphy
+ Andreas Oesterhelt
+ Haroon Rafique
+ Georg Sauthoff
+ Thomas Steudten
+ Jï¿½rg Strohmayer
+ Rodney Stromlund
+ Sviatoslav Sviridov
+ Sarantis Paskalis
+ Stefan Waldherr

Thanks to the many people who have tested Privoxy, reported bugs, + provided patches, made suggestions, donated or contributed in some + other way. These include (in alphabetical order):

Rustam Abdullaev
+ Clint Adams
+ Anatoly Arzhnikov
+ Ken Arromdee
+ Natxo Asenjo
+ Devin Bayer
+ Havard Berland
+ David Bo
+ Gergely Bor
+ Francois Botha
+ Reiner Buehl
+ Andrew J. Caines
+ Clifford Caoile
+ Edward Carrel
+ Pak Chan
+ Wan-Teh Chang
+ Sam Chen
+ Ramkumar Chinchani
+ Billy Crook
+ Frï¿½dï¿½ric Crozat
+ Matthew Daley
+ Michael T. Davis
+ Markus Dittrich
+ Mattes Dolak
+ Matthias Drochner
+ Peter E.
+ Florian Effenberger
+ Markus Elfring
+ Ryan Farmer
+ Matthew Fischer
+ Dean Gaudet
+ Stephen Gildea
+ John McGowan
+ Danny Goossen
+ Lizik Grelier
+ Daniel Griscom
+ Felix Grï¿½bert
+ Bernard Guillot
+ Jeff H.
+ Tim H.
+ Aaron Hamid
+ Basil Hussain
+ Darel Henman
+ Magnus Holmgren
+ Eric M. Hopper
+ Ralf Horstmann
+ Stefan Huehner
+ Peter Hyman
+ Derek Jennings
+ Andrew Jones
+ Julien Joubert
+ Ralf Jungblut
+ Petr Kadlec
+ Robert Klemme
+ Steven Kolins
+ Korda
+ Stefan Kurtz
+ Zeno Kugy
+ David Laight
+ Bert van Leeuwen
+ Don Libes
+ Paul Lieverse
+ Han Liu
+ Toby Lyward
+ Wil Mahan
+ Jindrich Makovicka
+ Raphael Marichez
+ Francois Marier
+ Angelina Matson
+ Jonathan McKenzie
+ David Mediavilla
+ J. Momberger
+ Raphael Moll
+ Mathew Murphy
+ Amuro Namie
+ Mark Nelson
+ Tobias Netzel
+ Adam Piggott
+ Petr Pï¿½sar
+ Dan Price
+ Kai Raven
+ Roberto Ragusa
+ Fï¿½lix Rauch
+ Marvin Renich
+ Chris John Riley
+ Maynard Riley
+ Andreas Rutkauskas
+ Bart Schelstraete
+ Gregory Seidman
+ Atman Sense
+ Chung-chieh Shan
+ Benjamin C. Wiley Sittler
+ Simon South
+ Dan Stahlke
+ Oliver Stoeneberg
+ Rick Sykes
+ Spinor S.
+ Peter Thoenen
+ Marc Thomas
+ Martin Thomas
+ Reuben Thomas
+ Guybrush Threepwood
+ Joel Verhagen
+ Bobby G. Vinyard
+ Jochen Voss
+ David Wagner
+ Glenn Washburn
+ Song Weijia
+ Jï¿½rg Weinmann
+ Darren Wiebe
+ Anduin Withers
+ Yang Xia
+ Jarry Xu
+ Oliver Yeoh
+ Jamie Zawinski
+ Eduard Wulff

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.

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