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68 >7. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</A
71 > Copyright © 2001, 2002 by Privoxy Developers <TT
74 HREF="mailto:developers@privoxy.org"
75 >developers@privoxy.org</A
79 > Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders
80 and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <I
86 > Portions of this document are <SPAN
93 > (tm) FAQ, and modified as
111 > is free software; you can
112 redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
117 >, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.</P
119 > This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
120 ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
121 FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
124 >GNU General Public License</I
127 more details, which is available from the Free Software Foundation, Inc, 59
128 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.</P
130 > You should have received a copy of the <A
131 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"
135 >GNU General Public License</I
138 along with this program; if not, write to the <P
140 > Free Software<br>
141 Foundation, Inc. <SPAN
143 >59 Temple Place</SPAN
144 > - Suite 330<br>
170 > In the beginning, there was the
172 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"
176 >Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
179 by Anonymous Coders and <A
180 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/"
184 >. It saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
185 web advertising and user tracking.</P
187 > But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for
188 forcing users to consume ads, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
189 for spying on them, kept evolving. Unfortunately, the <SPAN
193 > did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
194 (and is) the last official
196 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release"
201 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com"
203 >Junkbusters Corporation</A
205 Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
207 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"
210 >, which allowed further
211 development by others.</P
213 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
215 HREF="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/"
217 >improved version of the
219 >, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
220 It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first
221 version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the
222 original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support,
223 flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release
224 from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.</P
228 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
232 picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
233 and then reassembled it, adding many
235 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
241 > The result of this is <SPAN
245 stable release, 3.0, is due in May 2002.</P
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