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>7. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</A
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> Copyright <20> 2001-2009 by Privoxy Developers <CODE
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> Some source code is based on code Copyright <20> 1997 by Anonymous Coders
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and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <I
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>7.1. License</A
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> <SPAN
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>Privoxy</SPAN
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> is free software; you can
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redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
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as published by the Free Software Foundation.</P
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> You should have received a copy of the <I
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along with this program; if not, write to the <P
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web advertising and user tracking.</P
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forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their browsing, and
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for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the <SPAN
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> did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was
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(and is) the last official
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available from <A
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Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU
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which allowed further development by others.</P
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> So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an improved version of the
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software, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
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It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first
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version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the
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original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support,
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flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The last release
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from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.</P
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> Then, some
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picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down,
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and then reassembled it, adding many
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stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
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