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WeeChat - Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat
===========================================


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
--------
    * IRC chat client with multi-server connection
    * many GUI (curses, Gtk, Qt) (1)
    * small, fast and very light
    * customizable and extensible with plugins (C, Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua)
    * compliant with RFC 1459,2810,2811,2812,2813
    * developed from scratch
    * multi-platform (GNU/Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X, QNX, Windows & other) (2)
    * 100% GPL & free


Copyright
---------

WeeChat (c) Copyright 2003-2007 by FlashCode <flashcode@flashtux.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., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA


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(1) only Curses interface is available today
(2) Windows version is under construction