hexchat/readme.md

HexChat

X-Chat ("xchat") Copyright (c) 1998-2010 By Peter Zelezny.
HexChat ("hexchat") Copyright (c) 2009-2013 By Berke Viktor.

This program is released under the GPL v2 with the additional exemption that compiling, linking, and/or using OpenSSL is allowed. You may provide binary packages linked to the OpenSSL libraries, provided that all other requirements of the GPL are met. See file COPYING for details.

Information

HexChat is an IRC client for Windows and UNIX-like operating systems. See IRCHelp.org for information about IRC in general.

For more information please read our documentation:

• FAQ
• Changelog
• Python API
• Perl API

Requirements

• GTK+ 2.24
• GLib 2.28

HexChat is known to work on, at least:

• Windows Vista/7/8
• Linux
• FreeBSD
• OpenBSD
• NetBSD
• Solaris
• AIX
• IRIX
• DEC/Compaq Tru64 UNIX
• HP-UX 10.20 and 11
• OS X