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83 >12. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</A
86 > Copyright © 2001-2008 by Privoxy Developers <CODE
89 HREF="mailto:ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net"
90 >ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net</A
94 > Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous Coders
95 and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <I
112 > is free software; you can
113 redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
118 >, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.</P
120 > This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
121 ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
122 FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
125 >GNU General Public License</I
128 more details, which is available from the Free Software Foundation, Inc,
129 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA</P
131 > You should have received a copy of the <A
132 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"
136 >GNU General Public License</I
139 along with this program; if not, write to the <P
141 > Free Software<br>
142 Foundation, Inc. <SPAN
144 >51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor</SPAN
171 > A long time ago, there was the
173 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html"
177 >Internet Junkbuster</SPAN
180 by Anonymous Coders and <A
181 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/"
185 >. This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of
186 web advertising and user tracking.</P
188 > But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for
189 forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
190 for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the <SPAN
194 > did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
195 (and is) the last official
197 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release"
202 HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com"
204 >Junkbusters Corporation</A
206 Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
208 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"
211 >, which allowed further
212 development by others.</P
214 > So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an
216 HREF="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/"
218 >improved version of the
220 >, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
221 It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first
222 version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the
223 original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support,
224 flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release
225 from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.</P
229 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
233 picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
234 and then reassembled it, adding many
236 HREF="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
242 > The result of this is <SPAN
246 stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
258 >Current Privoxy Team:</P
260 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
261 > Fabian Keil, lead developer<br>
262 David Schmidt, developer<br>
264 Hal Burgiss<br>
265 Gerry Murphy<br>
266 Roland Rosenfeld<br>
267 Jörg Strohmayer</P
269 > Former Privoxy Team Members:</P
271 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
272 > Johny Agotnes <br>
273 Rodrigo Barbosa<br>
274 Moritz Barsnick<br>
275 Ian Cummings<br>
276 Brian Dessent<br>
277 Jon Foster<br>
278 Karsten Hopp<br>
279 Alexander Lazic<br>
280 Daniel Leite<br>
281 Gábor Lipták<br>
282 Adam Lock<br>
283 Guy Laroche<br>
284 Mark Martinec <br>
285 Justin McMurtry<br>
286 Andreas Oesterhelt<br>
287 Haroon Rafique<br>
288 Georg Sauthoff<br>
289 Thomas Steudten<br>
290 Rodney Stromlund<br>
291 Sviatoslav Sviridov<br>
292 Sarantis Paskalis<br>
293 Stefan Waldherr</P
295 > Thanks to the many people who have tested Privoxy, reported bugs, provided
296 patches, made suggestions or contributed in some way. These include (in
297 alphabetical order):</P
299 CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT"
300 > Ken Arromdee<br>
301 Devin Bayer<br>
302 Gergely Bor<br>
303 Reiner Buehl<br>
304 Andrew J. Caines<br>
305 Clifford Caoile<br>
306 Frédéric Crozat<br>
307 Michael T. Davis<br>
308 Mattes Dolak <br>
309 Peter E.<br>
310 Florian Effenberger<br>
311 Markus Elfring<br>
312 Dean Gaudet<br>
313 Stephen Gildea<br>
314 Daniel Griscom<br>
315 Felix Gröbert<br>
316 Aaron Hamid<br>
317 Darel Henman<br>
318 Magnus Holmgren<br>
319 Eric M. Hopper<br>
320 Ralf Horstmann<br>
321 Stefan Huehner <br>
322 Peter Hyman<br>
323 Derek Jennings<br>
324 Petr Kadlec<br>
325 David Laight<br>
326 Bert van Leeuwen<br>
327 Don Libes <br>
328 Paul Lieverse<br>
329 Toby Lyward<br>
330 Wil Mahan<br>
331 Jindrich Makovicka <br>
332 David Mediavilla <br>
333 Raphael Moll<br>
334 Amuro Namie<br>
335 Adam Piggott<br>
336 Dan Price<br>
337 Lee R.<br>
338 Roberto Ragusa<br>
339 Félix Rauch<br>
340 Maynard Riley<br>
341 Chung-chieh Shan<br>
342 Spinor S.<br>
343 Bart Schelstraete<br>
344 Oliver Stoeneberg<br>
345 Peter Thoenen<br>
346 Martin Thomas<br>
347 Song Weijia<br>
348 Jörg Weinmann <br>
349 Darren Wiebe<br>
350 Bobby G. Vinyard<br>
351 Anduin Withers<br>
352 Oliver Yeoh<br>
353 Jamie Zawinski</P
355 > Privoxy is based in part on code originally developed by
356 Junkbusters Corp. and Anonymous Coders.</P
358 > Privoxy heavily relies on Philip Hazel's PCRE.</P
360 > The code to filter compressed content makes use of zlib
361 which is written by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.</P
363 > On systems that lack snprintf(), Privoxy is using a version
364 written by Mark Martinec. On systems that lack strptime(),
365 Privoxy is using the one from the GNU C Library written
366 by Ulrich Drepper.</P
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