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WeeChat Readme
==============


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
--------

* chat client with multi-protocols/servers connection
* many GUI (curses, Gtk, Qt) (1)
* small, fast and very light
* customizable and extensible with plugins (C, Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, Tcl)
* compliant with IRC RFCs 1459, 2810, 2811, 2812 and 2813
* developed from scratch
* multi-platform (GNU/Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X, QNX, Windows & other) (2)
* free software, released under GPLv3

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


Copyright
---------

WeeChat (c) Copyright 2003-2010 by FlashCode <flashcode@flashtux.org>

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 3 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, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.