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71 >7. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</H1
73 > Copyright © 2001 - 2006 by Privoxy Developers <TT
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77 >ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net</A
81 > Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders
82 and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <I
88 > Portions of this document are <SPAN
95 > (tm) FAQ, and modified as
113 > is free software; you can
114 redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
119 >, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.</P
121 > This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
122 ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
123 FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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140 along with this program; if not, write to the <P
142 > Free Software<br>
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172 > Along time ago, there was the
174 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"
178 >Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
181 by Anonymous Coders and <A
182 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/"
186 >. This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
187 web advertising and user tracking.</P
189 > But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for
190 forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
191 for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the <SPAN
195 > did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
196 (and is) the last official
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207 Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
209 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"
212 >, which allowed further
213 development by others.</P
215 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
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219 >improved version of the
221 >, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
222 It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first
223 version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the
224 original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support,
225 flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release
226 from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.</P
230 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
234 picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
235 and then reassembled it, adding many
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243 > The result of this is <SPAN
247 stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
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