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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, lead developer<br>
259 David Schmidt, developer<br>
261 Hal Burgiss<br>
262 Roland Rosenfeld<br>
263 Jörg Strohmayer</P
265 > Former Privoxy Team Members:</P
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268 > Johny Agotnes <br>
269 Rodrigo Barbosa<br>
270 Moritz Barsnick<br>
271 Ian Cummings<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 Justin McMurtry<br>
282 Andreas Oesterhelt<br>
283 Haroon Rafique<br>
284 Georg Sauthoff<br>
285 Thomas Steudten<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
295 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
296 > Ken Arromdee<br>
297 Devin Bayer<br>
298 Gergely Bor<br>
299 Reiner Buehl<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 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 David Mediavilla <br>
328 Raphael Moll<br>
329 Amuro Namie<br>
330 Adam Piggott<br>
331 Dan Price<br>
332 Lee R.<br>
333 Roberto Ragusa<br>
334 Félix Rauch<br>
335 Maynard Riley<br>
336 Chung-chieh Shan<br>
337 Spinor S.<br>
338 Bart Schelstraete<br>
339 Oliver Stoeneberg<br>
340 Peter Thoenen<br>
341 Martin Thomas<br>
342 Song Weijia<br>
343 Jörg Weinmann <br>
344 Darren Wiebe<br>
345 Bobby G. Vinyard<br>
346 Anduin Withers<br>
347 Oliver Yeoh<br>
348 Jamie Zawinski</P
350 > Privoxy is based in part on code originally developed by
351 Junkbusters Corp. and Anonymous Coders.</P
353 > Privoxy heavily relies on Philip Hazel's PCRE.</P
355 > The code to filter compressed content makes use of zlib
356 which is written by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.</P
358 > On systems that lack snprintf(), Privoxy is using a version
359 written by Mark Martinec. On systems that lack strptime(),
360 Privoxy is using the one from the GNU C Library written
361 by Ulrich Drepper.</P
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