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80 >12. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</A
83 > Copyright © 2001 - 2007 by Privoxy Developers <CODE
86 HREF="mailto:ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net"
87 >ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net</A
91 > Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders
92 and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <I
109 > is free software; you can
110 redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
115 >, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.</P
117 > This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
118 ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
119 FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
122 >GNU General Public License</I
125 more details, which is available from the Free Software Foundation, Inc,
126 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA</P
128 > You should have received a copy of the <A
129 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"
133 >GNU General Public License</I
136 along with this program; if not, write to the <P
138 > Free Software<br>
139 Foundation, Inc. <SPAN
141 >51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor</SPAN
168 > A long time ago, there was the
170 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"
174 >Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
177 by Anonymous Coders and <A
178 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/"
182 >. This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
183 web advertising and user tracking.</P
185 > But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for
186 forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
187 for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the <SPAN
191 > did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
192 (and is) the last official
194 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release"
199 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com"
201 >Junkbusters Corporation</A
203 Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
205 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"
208 >, which allowed further
209 development by others.</P
211 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
213 HREF="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/"
215 >improved version of the
217 >, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
218 It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first
219 version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the
220 original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support,
221 flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release
222 from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.</P
226 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
230 picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
231 and then reassembled it, adding many
233 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
239 > The result of this is <SPAN
243 stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
255 >Current Privoxy Team:</P
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258 > Fabian Keil, developer<br>
259 David Schmidt, developer<br>
261 Hal Burgiss<br>
262 Ian Cummings<br>
263 Justin McMurtry<br>
264 Roland Rosenfeld</P
266 > Former Privoxy Team Members:</P
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269 > Johny Agotnes <br>
270 Rodrigo Barbosa<br>
271 Moritz Barsnick<br>
272 Brian Dessent<br>
273 Jon Foster<br>
274 Karsten Hopp<br>
275 Alexander Lazic<br>
276 Daniel Leite<br>
277 Gábor Lipták<br>
278 Adam Lock<br>
279 Guy Laroche<br>
280 Mark Martinec <br>
281 Andreas Oesterhelt<br>
282 Haroon Rafique<br>
283 Georg Sauthoff<br>
284 Thomas Steudten<br>
285 Joerg Strohmayer<br>
286 Rodney Stromlund<br>
287 Sviatoslav Sviridov<br>
288 Sarantis Paskalis<br>
289 Stefan Waldherr</P
291 > Thanks to the many people who have tested Privoxy, reported bugs, provided
292 patches, made suggestions or contributed in some way. These include (in
293 alphabetical order):</P
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296 > Ken Arromdee<br>
297 Devin Bayer<br>
298 Reiner Buehl<br>
299 Gergely Bor<br>
300 Andrew J. Caines<br>
301 Clifford Caoile<br>
302 Frédéric Crozat<br>
303 Michael T. Davis<br>
304 Mattes Dolak <br>
305 Peter E<br>
306 Florian Effenberger<br>
307 Markus Elfring<br>
308 Dean Gaudet<br>
309 Stephen Gildea<br>
310 Daniel Griscom<br>
311 Felix Gröbert<br>
312 Aaron Hamid<br>
313 Darel Henman<br>
314 Magnus Holmgren<br>
315 Peter Hyman<br>
316 Derek Jennings<br>
317 Petr Kadlec<br>
318 David Laight<br>
319 Don Libes <br>
320 Paul Lieverse<br>
321 Toby Lyward<br>
322 Wil Mahan<br>
323 Jindrich Makovicka <br>
324 David Mediavilla <br>
325 Raphael Moll<br>
326 Adam Piggott<br>
327 Roberto Ragusa<br>
328 Félix Rauch<br>
329 Maynard Riley<br>
330 Chung-chieh Shan<br>
331 Spinor S<br>
332 Bart Schelstraete<br>
333 Oliver Stoeneberg<br>
334 Peter Thoenen<br>
335 Martin Thomas<br>
336 Bobby G. Vinyard<br>
337 Jörg Weinmann <br>
338 Darren Wiebe<br>
339 Anduin Withers<br>
340 Oliver Yeoh<br>
341 Jamie Zawinski</P
343 > Privoxy is based in part on code originally developed by:</P
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346 > Junkbusters Corp.<br>
347 Anonymous Coders<br>
348 Ulrich Drepper (strptime fallback)<br>
349 Philip Hazel (PCRE)</P
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