WeeChat - Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat
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WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a fast and light chat
environment for many operating systems. Everything can be done with a keyboard.
It is customizable and extensible with scripts.


Features
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    * IRC chat client with multi-server connection
    * many GUI (curses, Gtk, Qt) (1)
    * small, fast and very light
    * customizable and extensible with scripts (Perl, Python, Ruby) (2)
    * compliant with RFC 1459,2810,2811,2812,2813
    * developed from scratch (not based on any other IRC client, except for look ;)
    * multi-platform (GNU/Linux, *BSD, Windows & other) (3)
    * 100% GPL & free


Copyright
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WeeChat (c) Copyright 2004
  by: FlashCode <flashcode@flashtux.org>
        Xahlexx <xahlex@tuxisland.org>
         Bounga <bounga@altern.org>
(see AUTHORS file if you want to contact authors)

WeeChat is distributed under GPL licence (see COPYING file for complete license):

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA


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(1) only curses interface is available today
(2) plugin interfaces are not yet developed
(3) only GNU/Linux version is available today
