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83 >12. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</A
86 > Copyright © 2001-2009 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/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html"
208 which allowed further development by others.</P
210 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an improved version of the
211 software, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
212 It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first
213 version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the
214 original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support,
215 flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release
216 from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.</P
220 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
224 picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
225 and then reassembled it, adding many
227 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
233 > The result of this is <SPAN
237 stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
249 >Current Privoxy Team:</P
251 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
252 > Fabian Keil, lead developer<br>
253 David Schmidt, developer<br>
255 Hal Burgiss<br>
256 Mark Miller<br>
257 Gerry Murphy<br>
258 Lee Rian<br>
259 Roland Rosenfeld<br>
260 Jörg Strohmayer</P
262 > Former Privoxy Team Members:</P
264 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
265 > Johny Agotnes<br>
266 Rodrigo Barbosa<br>
267 Moritz Barsnick<br>
268 Ian Cummings<br>
269 Brian Dessent<br>
270 Jon Foster<br>
271 Karsten Hopp<br>
272 Alexander Lazic<br>
273 Daniel Leite<br>
274 Gábor Lipták<br>
275 Adam Lock<br>
276 Guy Laroche<br>
277 Justin McMurtry<br>
278 Andreas Oesterhelt<br>
279 Haroon Rafique<br>
280 Georg Sauthoff<br>
281 Thomas Steudten<br>
282 Rodney Stromlund<br>
283 Sviatoslav Sviridov<br>
284 Sarantis Paskalis<br>
285 Stefan Waldherr</P
287 > Thanks to the many people who have tested Privoxy, reported bugs, provided
288 patches, made suggestions or contributed in some way. These include (in
289 alphabetical order):</P
291 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
292 > Ken Arromdee<br>
293 Devin Bayer<br>
294 Gergely Bor<br>
295 Reiner Buehl<br>
296 Andrew J. Caines<br>
297 Clifford Caoile<br>
298 Frédéric Crozat<br>
299 Michael T. Davis<br>
300 Mattes Dolak<br>
301 Matthias Drochner<br>
302 Peter E.<br>
303 Florian Effenberger<br>
304 Markus Elfring<br>
305 Dean Gaudet<br>
306 Stephen Gildea<br>
307 Daniel Griscom<br>
308 Felix Gröbert<br>
309 Aaron Hamid<br>
310 Darel Henman<br>
311 Magnus Holmgren<br>
312 Eric M. Hopper<br>
313 Ralf Horstmann<br>
314 Stefan Huehner<br>
315 Peter Hyman<br>
316 Derek Jennings<br>
317 Petr Kadlec<br>
318 David Laight<br>
319 Bert van Leeuwen<br>
320 Don Libes<br>
321 Paul Lieverse<br>
322 Toby Lyward<br>
323 Wil Mahan<br>
324 Jindrich Makovicka<br>
325 David Mediavilla<br>
326 Raphael Moll<br>
327 Amuro Namie<br>
328 Adam Piggott<br>
329 Dan Price<br>
330 Roberto Ragusa<br>
331 Félix Rauch<br>
332 Maynard Riley<br>
333 Chung-chieh Shan<br>
334 Spinor S.<br>
335 Bart Schelstraete<br>
336 Oliver Stoeneberg<br>
337 Peter Thoenen<br>
338 Martin Thomas<br>
339 Bobby G. Vinyard<br>
340 Jochen Voss<br>
341 Glenn Washburn<br>
342 Song Weijia<br>
343 Jörg Weinmann<br>
344 Darren Wiebe<br>
345 Anduin Withers<br>
346 Oliver Yeoh<br>
347 Jamie Zawinski</P
349 > Privoxy is based in part on code originally developed by
350 Junkbusters Corp. and Anonymous Coders.</P
352 > Privoxy heavily relies on Philip Hazel's PCRE.</P
354 > The code to filter compressed content makes use of zlib
355 which is written by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.</P
357 > On systems that lack snprintf(), Privoxy is using a version
358 written by Mark Martinec. On systems that lack strptime(),
359 Privoxy is using the one from the GNU C Library written
360 by Ulrich Drepper.</P
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