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83 >12. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</A
86 > Copyright © 2001-2008 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/gpl.html"
207 >, which allowed further
208 development by others.</P
210 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
212 HREF="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/"
214 >improved version of the
216 >, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
217 It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first
218 version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the
219 original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support,
220 flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release
221 from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.</P
225 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
229 picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
230 and then reassembled it, adding many
232 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
238 > The result of this is <SPAN
242 stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
254 >Current Privoxy Team:</P
256 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
257 > Fabian Keil, lead developer<br>
258 David Schmidt, developer<br>
260 Hal Burgiss<br>
261 Mark Miller<br>
262 Gerry Murphy<br>
263 Lee Rian<br>
264 Roland Rosenfeld<br>
265 Jörg Strohmayer</P
267 > Former Privoxy Team Members:</P
269 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
270 > Johny Agotnes <br>
271 Rodrigo Barbosa<br>
272 Moritz Barsnick<br>
273 Ian Cummings<br>
274 Brian Dessent<br>
275 Jon Foster<br>
276 Karsten Hopp<br>
277 Alexander Lazic<br>
278 Daniel Leite<br>
279 Gábor Lipták<br>
280 Adam Lock<br>
281 Guy Laroche<br>
282 Mark Martinec <br>
283 Justin McMurtry<br>
284 Andreas Oesterhelt<br>
285 Haroon Rafique<br>
286 Georg Sauthoff<br>
287 Thomas Steudten<br>
288 Rodney Stromlund<br>
289 Sviatoslav Sviridov<br>
290 Sarantis Paskalis<br>
291 Stefan Waldherr</P
293 > Thanks to the many people who have tested Privoxy, reported bugs, provided
294 patches, made suggestions or contributed in some way. These include (in
295 alphabetical order):</P
297 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
298 > Ken Arromdee<br>
299 Devin Bayer<br>
300 Gergely Bor<br>
301 Reiner Buehl<br>
302 Andrew J. Caines<br>
303 Clifford Caoile<br>
304 Frédéric Crozat<br>
305 Michael T. Davis<br>
306 Mattes Dolak <br>
307 Peter E.<br>
308 Florian Effenberger<br>
309 Markus Elfring<br>
310 Dean Gaudet<br>
311 Stephen Gildea<br>
312 Daniel Griscom<br>
313 Felix Gröbert<br>
314 Aaron Hamid<br>
315 Darel Henman<br>
316 Magnus Holmgren<br>
317 Eric M. Hopper<br>
318 Ralf Horstmann<br>
319 Stefan Huehner <br>
320 Peter Hyman<br>
321 Derek Jennings<br>
322 Petr Kadlec<br>
323 David Laight<br>
324 Bert van Leeuwen<br>
325 Don Libes <br>
326 Paul Lieverse<br>
327 Toby Lyward<br>
328 Wil Mahan<br>
329 Jindrich Makovicka <br>
330 David Mediavilla <br>
331 Raphael Moll<br>
332 Amuro Namie<br>
333 Adam Piggott<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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