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80 >9. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</A
83 > Copyright © 2001-2008 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
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136 along with this program; if not, write to the <P
138 > Free Software<br>
139 Foundation, Inc. <SPAN
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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
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239 > The result of this is <SPAN
243 stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
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