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54 <a name="COPYRIGHT">12. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</a>
57 Copyright © 2001-2011 by Privoxy Developers <code class=
59 "mailto:ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net">ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net</a>></code>
62 Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous
63 Coders and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <i class=
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68 <a name="AEN5383">12.1. License</a>
71 <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is free software; you can
72 redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the <i class=
73 "CITETITLE">GNU General Public License</i>, version 2, as published
74 by the Free Software Foundation.
77 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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79 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the <a
80 href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html"
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82 License</i></a> for details.
85 You should have received a copy of the <i class="CITETITLE">GNU
86 GPL</i> along with this program; if not, write to the
89 Free Software<br>
90 Foundation, Inc. <span class="STREET">51 Franklin
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93 "STATE">MA</span> <span class="POSTCODE">02110-1301</span><br>
94 <span class="COUNTRY">USA</span>
99 <a name="HISTORY">12.2. History</a>
102 A long time ago, there was the <a href=
103 "http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html" target="_top"><span class=
104 "APPLICATION">Internet Junkbuster</span></a>, by Anonymous Coders
105 and <a href="http://www.junkbusters.com/" target="_top">Junkbusters
106 Corporation</a>. This saved many users a lot of pain in the early
107 days of web advertising and user tracking.
110 But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the
111 techniques for forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their
112 browsing, and for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the
113 <span class="APPLICATION">Internet Junkbuster</span> did not.
114 Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was (and is) the last official <a
115 href="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release" target=
116 "_top">release</a> available from <a href=
117 "http://www.junkbusters.com" target="_top">Junkbusters
118 Corporation</a>. Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU <a
119 href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html"
120 target="_top">GPL</a>, which allowed further development by others.
123 So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an improved version of the
124 software, to which eventually a number of people contributed
125 patches. It could already replace banners with a transparent image,
126 and had a first version of pop-up killing, but it was still very
127 closely based on the original, with all its limitations, such as
128 the lack of HTTP/1.1 support, flexible per-site configuration, or
129 content modification. The last release from this effort was version
130 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.
134 "http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS" target=
135 "_top">developers</a> picked up the thread, and started turning the
136 software inside out, upside down, and then reassembled it, adding
138 "http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
139 target="_top">new features</a> along the way.
142 The result of this is <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>,
143 whose first stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
148 <a name="AUTHORS">12.3. Authors</a>
151 Current Privoxy Team:
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154 Fabian Keil, lead developer<br>
155 David Schmidt, developer<br>
156 Hal Burgiss<br>
157 Mark Miller<br>
158 Gerry Murphy<br>
159 Lee Rian<br>
160 Roland Rosenfeld
163 Former Privoxy Team Members:
165 <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
166 Johny Agotnes<br>
167 Rodrigo Barbosa<br>
168 Moritz Barsnick<br>
169 Ian Cummings<br>
170 Brian Dessent<br>
171 Jon Foster<br>
172 Karsten Hopp<br>
173 Alexander Lazic<br>
174 Daniel Leite<br>
175 Gábor Lipták<br>
176 Adam Lock<br>
177 Guy Laroche<br>
178 Justin McMurtry<br>
179 Andreas Oesterhelt<br>
180 Haroon Rafique<br>
181 Georg Sauthoff<br>
182 Thomas Steudten<br>
183 Jörg Strohmayer<br>
184 Rodney Stromlund<br>
185 Sviatoslav Sviridov<br>
186 Sarantis Paskalis<br>
187 Stefan Waldherr
190 Thanks to the many people who have tested Privoxy, reported bugs,
191 provided patches, made suggestions or contributed in some way.
192 These include (in alphabetical order):
194 <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
195 Ken Arromdee<br>
196 Devin Bayer<br>
197 Havard Berland<br>
198 Gergely Bor<br>
199 Francois Botha<br>
200 Reiner Buehl<br>
201 Andrew J. Caines<br>
202 Clifford Caoile<br>
203 Wan-Teh Chang<br>
204 Frédéric Crozat<br>
205 Michael T. Davis<br>
206 Mattes Dolak<br>
207 Matthias Drochner<br>
208 Peter E.<br>
209 Florian Effenberger<br>
210 Markus Elfring<br>
211 Dean Gaudet<br>
212 Stephen Gildea<br>
213 Daniel Griscom<br>
214 Felix Gröbert<br>
215 Jeff H.<br>
216 Aaron Hamid<br>
217 Darel Henman<br>
218 Magnus Holmgren<br>
219 Eric M. Hopper<br>
220 Ralf Horstmann<br>
221 Stefan Huehner<br>
222 Peter Hyman<br>
223 Derek Jennings<br>
224 Petr Kadlec<br>
225 David Laight<br>
226 Bert van Leeuwen<br>
227 Don Libes<br>
228 Paul Lieverse<br>
229 Toby Lyward<br>
230 Wil Mahan<br>
231 Jindrich Makovicka<br>
232 Francois Marier<br>
233 David Mediavilla<br>
234 Raphael Moll<br>
235 Amuro Namie<br>
236 Adam Piggott<br>
237 Petr Písar<br>
238 Dan Price<br>
239 Roberto Ragusa<br>
240 Félix Rauch<br>
241 Maynard Riley<br>
242 Chung-chieh Shan<br>
243 Spinor S.<br>
244 Bart Schelstraete<br>
245 Oliver Stoeneberg<br>
246 Peter Thoenen<br>
247 Martin Thomas<br>
248 Bobby G. Vinyard<br>
249 Jochen Voss<br>
250 Glenn Washburn<br>
251 Song Weijia<br>
252 Jörg Weinmann<br>
253 Darren Wiebe<br>
254 Anduin Withers<br>
255 Oliver Yeoh<br>
256 Jamie Zawinski
259 Privoxy is based in part on code originally developed by
260 Junkbusters Corp. and Anonymous Coders.
263 Privoxy heavily relies on Philip Hazel's PCRE.
266 The code to filter compressed content makes use of zlib which is
267 written by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.
270 On systems that lack snprintf(), Privoxy is using a version written
271 by Mark Martinec. On systems that lack strptime(), Privoxy is using
272 the one from the GNU C Library written by Ulrich Drepper.
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