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166 lines
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HTML
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
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"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
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<html>
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<meta name="generator" content=
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"HTML Tidy for Linux/x86 (vers 7 December 2008), see www.w3.org">
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<title>Privoxy Copyright, License and History</title>
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<meta name="GENERATOR" content=
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"Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
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<link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions" href=
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"index.html">
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<link rel="PREVIOUS" title=
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"Contacting the developers, Bug Reporting and Feature Requests" href=
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"contact.html">
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<link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
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body {
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:link { color: #0000FF }
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<body class="SECT1">
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<div class="NAVHEADER">
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<table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
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cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
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<tr>
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<th colspan="3" align="center">Privoxy Frequently Asked
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Questions</th>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href="contact.html"
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accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
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<div class="SECT1">
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<h1 class="SECT1"><a name="COPYRIGHT" id="COPYRIGHT">7. Privoxy
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Copyright, License and History</a></h1>
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<p>Copyright © 2001-2011 by Privoxy Developers <code class=
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"EMAIL"><<a href=
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"mailto:ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net">ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net</a>></code></p>
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<p>Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous
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Coders and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <i class=
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"CITETITLE">GNU General Public License</i>.</p>
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<p>Portions of this document are <span class="QUOTE">"borrowed"</span>
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from the original <span class="APPLICATION">Junkbuster</span> (tm) FAQ,
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and modified as appropriate for <span class=
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"APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>.</p>
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<div class="SECT2">
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<h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN1475" id="AEN1475">7.1. License</a></h2>
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<p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is free software; you can
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redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the <i class=
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"CITETITLE">GNU General Public License</i>, version 2, as published by
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the Free Software Foundation.</p>
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<p>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the <a class=
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"CITETITLE c2" href=
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"http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html" target=
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"_top">GNU General Public License</a> for details.</p>
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<p>You should have received a copy of the <i class="CITETITLE">GNU
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GPL</i> along with this program; if not, write to the</p>
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<p class="ADDRESS"> Free Software<br>
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Foundation, Inc. <span class="STREET">51 Franklin
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Street, Fifth Floor</span><br>
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<span class="CITY">Boston</span>, <span class=
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"STATE">MA</span> <span class="POSTCODE">02110-1301</span><br>
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<span class="COUNTRY">USA</span> </p>
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</div>
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<div class="SECT2">
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<h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN1491" id="AEN1491">7.2. History</a></h2>
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<p>A long time ago, there was the <a href=
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"http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html" target="_top"><span class=
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"APPLICATION">Internet Junkbuster</span></a>, by Anonymous Coders and
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<a href="http://www.junkbusters.com/" target="_top">Junkbusters
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Corporation</a>. This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days
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of web advertising and user tracking.</p>
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<p>But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the
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techniques for forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their
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browsing, and for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the
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<span class="APPLICATION">Internet Junkbuster</span> did not. Version
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2.0.2, published in 1998, was (and is) the last official <a href=
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"http://www.junkbusters.com/ijbdist.html#release" target=
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"_top">release</a> available from <a href="http://www.junkbusters.com"
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target="_top">Junkbusters Corporation</a>. Fortunately, it had been
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released under the GNU <a href=
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"http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html" target=
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"_top">GPL</a>, which allowed further development by others.</p>
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<p>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
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first version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on
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the original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1
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support, flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The
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last release from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in
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2000.</p>
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<p>Then, some <a href=
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"http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS" target=
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"_top">developers</a> picked up the thread, and started turning the
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software inside out, upside down, and then reassembled it, adding many
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<a href="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
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target="_top">new features</a> along the way.</p>
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<p>The result of this is <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>,
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whose first stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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<tr>
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accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
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<td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html"
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accesskey="H">Home</a></td>
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<td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"> </td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">Contacting the developers,
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Bug Reporting and Feature Requests</td>
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<td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
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<td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"> </td>
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</tr>
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</body>
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</html>
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