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82 > Copyright, License and History</H1
84 > Copyright © 2001 - 2006 by Privoxy Developers <TT
87 HREF="mailto:ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net"
88 >ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net</A
92 > Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders
93 and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <I
110 > is free software; you can
111 redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
116 >, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.</P
118 > This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
119 ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
120 FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
123 >GNU General Public License</I
126 more details, which is available from the Free Software Foundation, Inc, 59
127 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.</P
129 > You should have received a copy of the <A
130 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"
134 >GNU General Public License</I
137 along with this program; if not, write to the <P
139 > Free Software<br>
140 Foundation, Inc. <SPAN
142 >59 Temple Place</SPAN
143 > - Suite 330<br>
169 > Along time ago, there was the
171 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"
175 >Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
178 by Anonymous Coders and <A
179 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/"
183 >. This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
184 web advertising and user tracking.</P
186 > But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for
187 forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
188 for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the <SPAN
192 > did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
193 (and is) the last official
195 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release"
200 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com"
202 >Junkbusters Corporation</A
204 Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
206 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"
209 >, which allowed further
210 development by others.</P
212 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
214 HREF="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/"
216 >improved version of the
218 >, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
219 It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first
220 version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the
221 original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support,
222 flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release
223 from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.</P
227 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
231 picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
232 and then reassembled it, adding many
234 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
240 > The result of this is <SPAN
244 stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
256 >Current Developement Team:</P
258 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
259 > Fabian Keil<br>
260 David Schmidt<br>
262 Current Contributors:<br>
264 Johny Agotnes <br>
265 Moritz Barsnick<br>
266 Hal Burgiss<br>
267 Mattes Dolak <br>
268 Roland Rosenfeld<br> </P
270 > Former Project Developers and Contributors:</P
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274 Rodrigo Barbosa<br>
275 Brian Dessent<br>
276 Jon Foster<br>
277 Karsten Hopp<br>
278 Alexander Lazic<br>
279 Daniel Leite<br>
280 Gábor Lipták<br>
281 Adam Lock<br>
282 Guy Laroche<br>
283 Andreas Oesterhelt<br>
284 Haroon Rafique<br>
285 Georg Sauthoff<br>
286 Thomas Steudten<br>
287 Joerg Strohmayer<br>
288 Rodney Stromlund<br>
289 Sviatoslav Sviridov<br>
290 Sarantis Paskalis<br>
291 Stefan Waldherr</P
293 > Based in part on code originally developed by:</P
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296 > Junkbusters Corp.<br>
297 Anonymous Coders</P
299 > Thanks to the many people who have tested Privoxy, reported bugs, or made
300 suggestions. These include (in alphabetical order):</P
302 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
303 > Ken Arromdee<br>
304 Devin Bayer<br>
305 Reiner Buehl<br>
306 Andrew J. Caines<br>
307 Clifford Caoile<br>
308 Michael T. Davis<br>
309 Brian Dessent<br>
310 Peter E<br>
311 Aaron Hamid<br>
312 Magnus Holmgren<br>
313 Don Libes <br>
314 Paul Lieverse<br>
315 David Mediavilla <br>
316 Oliver Stoeneberg<br>
317 Roberto Ragusa<br>
318 Maynard Riley<br>
319 Bart Schelstraete<br>
320 Darren Wiebe<br>
321 Jamie Zawinski</P
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