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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 Gergely Bor<br>
295 Francois Botha<br>
296 Reiner Buehl<br>
297 Andrew J. Caines<br>
298 Clifford Caoile<br>
299 Wan-Teh Chang<br>
300 Frédéric Crozat<br>
301 Michael T. Davis<br>
302 Mattes Dolak<br>
303 Matthias Drochner<br>
304 Peter E.<br>
305 Florian Effenberger<br>
306 Markus Elfring<br>
307 Dean Gaudet<br>
308 Stephen Gildea<br>
309 Daniel Griscom<br>
310 Felix Gröbert<br>
311 Aaron Hamid<br>
312 Darel Henman<br>
313 Magnus Holmgren<br>
314 Eric M. Hopper<br>
315 Ralf Horstmann<br>
316 Stefan Huehner<br>
317 Peter Hyman<br>
318 Derek Jennings<br>
319 Petr Kadlec<br>
320 David Laight<br>
321 Bert van Leeuwen<br>
322 Don Libes<br>
323 Paul Lieverse<br>
324 Toby Lyward<br>
325 Wil Mahan<br>
326 Jindrich Makovicka<br>
327 Francois Marier<br>
328 David Mediavilla<br>
329 Raphael Moll<br>
330 Amuro Namie<br>
331 Adam Piggott<br>
332 Petr Písar<br>
333 Dan Price<br>
334 Roberto Ragusa<br>
335 Félix Rauch<br>
336 Maynard Riley<br>
337 Chung-chieh Shan<br>
338 Spinor S.<br>
339 Bart Schelstraete<br>
340 Oliver Stoeneberg<br>
341 Peter Thoenen<br>
342 Martin Thomas<br>
343 Bobby G. Vinyard<br>
344 Jochen Voss<br>
345 Glenn Washburn<br>
346 Song Weijia<br>
347 Jörg Weinmann<br>
348 Darren Wiebe<br>
349 Anduin Withers<br>
350 Oliver Yeoh<br>
351 Jamie Zawinski</P
353 > Privoxy is based in part on code originally developed by
354 Junkbusters Corp. and Anonymous Coders.</P
356 > Privoxy heavily relies on Philip Hazel's PCRE.</P
358 > The code to filter compressed content makes use of zlib
359 which is written by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.</P
361 > On systems that lack snprintf(), Privoxy is using a version
362 written by Mark Martinec. On systems that lack strptime(),
363 Privoxy is using the one from the GNU C Library written
364 by Ulrich Drepper.</P
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