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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</P
261 > Former Privoxy Team Members:</P
263 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
264 > Johny Agotnes<br>
265 Rodrigo Barbosa<br>
266 Moritz Barsnick<br>
267 Ian Cummings<br>
268 Brian Dessent<br>
269 Jon Foster<br>
270 Karsten Hopp<br>
271 Alexander Lazic<br>
272 Daniel Leite<br>
273 Gábor Lipták<br>
274 Adam Lock<br>
275 Guy Laroche<br>
276 Justin McMurtry<br>
277 Andreas Oesterhelt<br>
278 Haroon Rafique<br>
279 Georg Sauthoff<br>
280 Thomas Steudten<br>
281 Jörg Strohmayer<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 Havard Berland<br>
295 Gergely Bor<br>
296 Francois Botha<br>
297 Reiner Buehl<br>
298 Andrew J. Caines<br>
299 Clifford Caoile<br>
300 Wan-Teh Chang<br>
301 Frédéric Crozat<br>
302 Michael T. Davis<br>
303 Mattes Dolak<br>
304 Matthias Drochner<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 Eric M. Hopper<br>
316 Ralf Horstmann<br>
317 Stefan Huehner<br>
318 Peter Hyman<br>
319 Derek Jennings<br>
320 Petr Kadlec<br>
321 David Laight<br>
322 Bert van Leeuwen<br>
323 Don Libes<br>
324 Paul Lieverse<br>
325 Toby Lyward<br>
326 Wil Mahan<br>
327 Jindrich Makovicka<br>
328 Francois Marier<br>
329 David Mediavilla<br>
330 Raphael Moll<br>
331 Amuro Namie<br>
332 Adam Piggott<br>
333 Petr Písar<br>
334 Dan Price<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 Bobby G. Vinyard<br>
345 Jochen Voss<br>
346 Glenn Washburn<br>
347 Song Weijia<br>
348 Jörg Weinmann<br>
349 Darren Wiebe<br>
350 Anduin Withers<br>
351 Oliver Yeoh<br>
352 Jamie Zawinski</P
354 > Privoxy is based in part on code originally developed by
355 Junkbusters Corp. and Anonymous Coders.</P
357 > Privoxy heavily relies on Philip Hazel's PCRE.</P
359 > The code to filter compressed content makes use of zlib
360 which is written by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.</P
362 > On systems that lack snprintf(), Privoxy is using a version
363 written by Mark Martinec. On systems that lack strptime(),
364 Privoxy is using the one from the GNU C Library written
365 by Ulrich Drepper.</P
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