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81 >12. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</H1
83 > Copyright © 2001 - 2006 by Privoxy Developers <TT
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
257 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
258 > Fabian Keil, developer<br>
259 David Schmidt, developer<br>
261 Hal Burgiss<br>
262 Ian Cummings<br>
263 Roland Rosenfeld</P
265 > Former Privoxy Team Members:</P
267 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
268 > Johny Agotnes <br>
269 Rodrigo Barbosa<br>
270 Moritz Barsnick<br>
271 Brian Dessent<br>
272 Jon Foster<br>
273 Karsten Hopp<br>
274 Alexander Lazic<br>
275 Daniel Leite<br>
276 Gábor Lipták<br>
277 Adam Lock<br>
278 Guy Laroche<br>
279 Mark Martinec <br>
280 Andreas Oesterhelt<br>
281 Haroon Rafique<br>
282 Georg Sauthoff<br>
283 Thomas Steudten<br>
284 Joerg Strohmayer<br>
285 Rodney Stromlund<br>
286 Sviatoslav Sviridov<br>
287 Sarantis Paskalis<br>
288 Stefan Waldherr</P
290 > Thanks to the many people who have tested Privoxy, reported bugs, provided
291 patches, made suggestions or contributed in some way. These include (in
292 alphabetical order):</P
294 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
295 > Ken Arromdee<br>
296 Devin Bayer<br>
297 Reiner Buehl<br>
298 Andrew J. Caines<br>
299 Clifford Caoile<br>
300 Frédéric Crozat<br>
301 Michael T. Davis<br>
302 Mattes Dolak <br>
303 Peter E<br>
304 Florian Effenberger<br>
305 Dean Gaudet<br>
306 Aaron Hamid<br>
307 Darel Henman<br>
308 Magnus Holmgren<br>
309 Derek Jennings<br>
310 David Laight<br>
311 Don Libes <br>
312 Paul Lieverse<br>
313 Jindrich Makovicka <br>
314 David Mediavilla <br>
315 Raphael Moll<br>
316 Oliver Stoeneberg<br>
317 Martin Thomas<br>
318 Roberto Ragusa<br>
319 Félix Rauch<br>
320 Maynard Riley<br>
321 Spinor S<br>
322 Bart Schelstraete<br>
323 Bobby G. Vinyard<br>
324 Jörg Weinmann <br>
325 Darren Wiebe<br>
326 Anduin Withers<br>
327 Oliver Yeoh<br>
328 Jamie Zawinski</P
330 > Privoxy is based in part on code originally developed by:</P
332 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
333 > Junkbusters Corp.<br>
334 Anonymous Coders<br>
335 Ulrich Drepper<br>
336 Philip Hazel</P
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