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41 <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="COPYRIGHT" id="COPYRIGHT">7. Privoxy
42 Copyright, License and History</a></h1>
44 <p>Copyright © 2001-2013 by Privoxy Developers <code class=
46 "mailto:ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net">ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net</a>></code></p>
48 <p>Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous
49 Coders and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <i class=
50 "CITETITLE">GNU General Public License</i>.</p>
52 <p>Portions of this document are <span class="QUOTE">"borrowed"</span>
53 from the original <span class="APPLICATION">Junkbuster</span> (tm) FAQ,
54 and modified as appropriate for <span class=
55 "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>.</p>
58 <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN1470" id="AEN1470">7.1. License</a></h2>
60 <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is free software; you can
61 redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the <i class=
62 "CITETITLE">GNU General Public License</i>, version 2, as published by
63 the Free Software Foundation.</p>
65 <p>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
66 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
67 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the <a href=
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72 <p>You should have received a copy of the <i class="CITETITLE">GNU
73 GPL</i> along with this program; if not, write to the</p>
75 <p class="ADDRESS"> Free Software<br>
76 Foundation, Inc. <span class="STREET">51 Franklin
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78 <span class="CITY">Boston</span>, <span class=
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80 <span class="COUNTRY">USA</span> </p>
84 <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN1486" id="AEN1486">7.2. History</a></h2>
86 <p>A long time ago, there was the <span class="APPLICATION">Internet
87 Junkbuster</span>, by Anonymous Coders and Junkbusters Corporation.
88 This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of web
89 advertising and user tracking.</p>
91 <p>But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the
92 techniques for forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their
93 browsing, and for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the
94 <span class="APPLICATION">Internet Junkbuster</span> did not. Version
95 2.0.2, published in 1998, was the last official release, available from
96 Junkbusters Corporation. Fortunately, it had been released under the
97 GNU <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html"
98 target="_top">GPL</a>, which allowed further development by others.</p>
100 <p>So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an improved version of the
101 software, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
102 It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a
103 first version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on
104 the original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1
105 support, flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The
106 last release from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in
109 <p>Then, some <a href=
110 "http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS" target=
111 "_top">developers</a> picked up the thread, and started turning the
112 software inside out, upside down, and then reassembled it, adding many
113 <a href="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
114 target="_top">new features</a> along the way.</p>
116 <p>The result of this is <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>,
117 whose first stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.</p>
119 <p>As of 2012 the Junkbusters Corporation's website
120 (http://www.junkbusters.com/) has been shut down, but Privoxy is still
121 actively maintained.</p>
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