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80 >12. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</A
83 > Copyright © 2001-2008 by Privoxy Developers <CODE
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, lead developer<br>
259 David Schmidt, developer<br>
261 Hal Burgiss<br>
262 Gerry Murphy<br>
263 Roland Rosenfeld<br>
264 Jörg Strohmayer</P
266 > Former Privoxy Team Members:</P
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269 > Johny Agotnes <br>
270 Rodrigo Barbosa<br>
271 Moritz Barsnick<br>
272 Ian Cummings<br>
273 Brian Dessent<br>
274 Jon Foster<br>
275 Karsten Hopp<br>
276 Alexander Lazic<br>
277 Daniel Leite<br>
278 Gábor Lipták<br>
279 Adam Lock<br>
280 Guy Laroche<br>
281 Mark Martinec <br>
282 Justin McMurtry<br>
283 Andreas Oesterhelt<br>
284 Haroon Rafique<br>
285 Georg Sauthoff<br>
286 Thomas Steudten<br>
287 Rodney Stromlund<br>
288 Sviatoslav Sviridov<br>
289 Sarantis Paskalis<br>
290 Stefan Waldherr</P
292 > Thanks to the many people who have tested Privoxy, reported bugs, provided
293 patches, made suggestions or contributed in some way. These include (in
294 alphabetical order):</P
296 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
297 > Ken Arromdee<br>
298 Devin Bayer<br>
299 Gergely Bor<br>
300 Reiner Buehl<br>
301 Andrew J. Caines<br>
302 Clifford Caoile<br>
303 Frédéric Crozat<br>
304 Michael T. Davis<br>
305 Mattes Dolak <br>
306 Peter E.<br>
307 Florian Effenberger<br>
308 Markus Elfring<br>
309 Dean Gaudet<br>
310 Stephen Gildea<br>
311 Daniel Griscom<br>
312 Felix Gröbert<br>
313 Aaron Hamid<br>
314 Darel Henman<br>
315 Magnus Holmgren<br>
316 Ralf Horstmann<br>
317 Stefan Huehner <br>
318 Peter Hyman<br>
319 Derek Jennings<br>
320 Petr Kadlec<br>
321 David Laight<br>
322 Bert van Leeuwen<br>
323 Don Libes <br>
324 Paul Lieverse<br>
325 Toby Lyward<br>
326 Wil Mahan<br>
327 Jindrich Makovicka <br>
328 David Mediavilla <br>
329 Raphael Moll<br>
330 Amuro Namie<br>
331 Adam Piggott<br>
332 Dan Price<br>
333 Lee R.<br>
334 Roberto Ragusa<br>
335 Félix Rauch<br>
336 Maynard Riley<br>
337 Chung-chieh Shan<br>
338 Spinor S.<br>
339 Bart Schelstraete<br>
340 Oliver Stoeneberg<br>
341 Peter Thoenen<br>
342 Martin Thomas<br>
343 Song Weijia<br>
344 Jörg Weinmann <br>
345 Darren Wiebe<br>
346 Bobby G. Vinyard<br>
347 Anduin Withers<br>
348 Oliver Yeoh<br>
349 Jamie Zawinski</P
351 > Privoxy is based in part on code originally developed by
352 Junkbusters Corp. and Anonymous Coders.</P
354 > Privoxy heavily relies on Philip Hazel's PCRE.</P
356 > The code to filter compressed content makes use of zlib
357 which is written by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.</P
359 > On systems that lack snprintf(), Privoxy is using a version
360 written by Mark Martinec. On systems that lack strptime(),
361 Privoxy is using the one from the GNU C Library written
362 by Ulrich Drepper.</P
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