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83 >12. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</A
86 > Copyright © 2001-2008 by Privoxy Developers <CODE
89 HREF="mailto:ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net"
90 >ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net</A
94 > Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders
95 and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <I
112 > is free software; you can
113 redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
116 >GNU General Public License</I
118 as published by the Free Software Foundation.</P
120 > This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
121 ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
122 FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the <A
123 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html"
127 >GNU General Public License</I
131 > You should have received a copy of the <I
135 along with this program; if not, write to the <P
137 > Free Software<br>
138 Foundation, Inc. <SPAN
140 >51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor</SPAN
167 > A long time ago, there was the
169 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"
173 >Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
176 by Anonymous Coders and <A
177 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/"
181 >. This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
182 web advertising and user tracking.</P
184 > But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for
185 forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
186 for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the <SPAN
190 > did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
191 (and is) the last official
193 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release"
198 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com"
200 >Junkbusters Corporation</A
202 Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
204 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"
207 >, which allowed further
208 development by others.</P
210 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
212 HREF="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/"
214 >improved version of the
216 >, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
217 It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first
218 version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the
219 original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support,
220 flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release
221 from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.</P
225 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
229 picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
230 and then reassembled it, adding many
232 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
238 > The result of this is <SPAN
242 stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
254 >Current Privoxy Team:</P
256 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
257 > Fabian Keil, lead developer<br>
258 David Schmidt, developer<br>
260 Hal Burgiss<br>
261 Mark Miller<br>
262 Gerry Murphy<br>
263 Roland Rosenfeld<br>
264 Jörg Strohmayer</P
266 > Former Privoxy Team Members:</P
268 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
269 > Johny Agotnes <br>
270 Rodrigo Barbosa<br>
271 Moritz Barsnick<br>
272 Ian Cummings<br>
273 Brian Dessent<br>
274 Jon Foster<br>
275 Karsten Hopp<br>
276 Alexander Lazic<br>
277 Daniel Leite<br>
278 Gábor Lipták<br>
279 Adam Lock<br>
280 Guy Laroche<br>
281 Mark Martinec <br>
282 Justin McMurtry<br>
283 Andreas Oesterhelt<br>
284 Haroon Rafique<br>
285 Georg Sauthoff<br>
286 Thomas Steudten<br>
287 Rodney Stromlund<br>
288 Sviatoslav Sviridov<br>
289 Sarantis Paskalis<br>
290 Stefan Waldherr</P
292 > Thanks to the many people who have tested Privoxy, reported bugs, provided
293 patches, made suggestions or contributed in some way. These include (in
294 alphabetical order):</P
296 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
297 > Ken Arromdee<br>
298 Devin Bayer<br>
299 Gergely Bor<br>
300 Reiner Buehl<br>
301 Andrew J. Caines<br>
302 Clifford Caoile<br>
303 Frédéric Crozat<br>
304 Michael T. Davis<br>
305 Mattes Dolak <br>
306 Peter E.<br>
307 Florian Effenberger<br>
308 Markus Elfring<br>
309 Dean Gaudet<br>
310 Stephen Gildea<br>
311 Daniel Griscom<br>
312 Felix Gröbert<br>
313 Aaron Hamid<br>
314 Darel Henman<br>
315 Magnus Holmgren<br>
316 Eric M. Hopper<br>
317 Ralf Horstmann<br>
318 Stefan Huehner <br>
319 Peter Hyman<br>
320 Derek Jennings<br>
321 Petr Kadlec<br>
322 David Laight<br>
323 Bert van Leeuwen<br>
324 Don Libes <br>
325 Paul Lieverse<br>
326 Toby Lyward<br>
327 Wil Mahan<br>
328 Jindrich Makovicka <br>
329 David Mediavilla <br>
330 Raphael Moll<br>
331 Amuro Namie<br>
332 Adam Piggott<br>
333 Dan Price<br>
334 Lee R.<br>
335 Roberto Ragusa<br>
336 Félix Rauch<br>
337 Maynard Riley<br>
338 Chung-chieh Shan<br>
339 Spinor S.<br>
340 Bart Schelstraete<br>
341 Oliver Stoeneberg<br>
342 Peter Thoenen<br>
343 Martin Thomas<br>
344 Song Weijia<br>
345 Jörg Weinmann <br>
346 Darren Wiebe<br>
347 Bobby G. Vinyard<br>
348 Anduin Withers<br>
349 Oliver Yeoh<br>
350 Jamie Zawinski</P
352 > Privoxy is based in part on code originally developed by
353 Junkbusters Corp. and Anonymous Coders.</P
355 > Privoxy heavily relies on Philip Hazel's PCRE.</P
357 > The code to filter compressed content makes use of zlib
358 which is written by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.</P
360 > On systems that lack snprintf(), Privoxy is using a version
361 written by Mark Martinec. On systems that lack strptime(),
362 Privoxy is using the one from the GNU C Library written
363 by Ulrich Drepper.</P
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