Open Source IRC Clients

See https://pidgin.im/about/ for more information. Pidgin is an instant messaging program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. It runs on Windows, Linux, and other UNIX operating systems. Pidgin is compatible with the following chat networks out of the box: AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, MXit, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr. It is written in C and makes heavy use of GLib and GTK+. Finch is a command line instant messaging program. It also lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat network simultaneously, and it is compatible with the same chat networks as Pidgin. It is written in C and makes heavy use of GLib and ncurses.

A fork of pidgin which aims to provide minor features that have not been addressed by the pidgin development team (including manual textbox resizing). See funpidgin.sf.net for details.

[ Please read https://sourceforge.net/p/darkbot/news/2014/01/darkbots-revitalization/ ] Darkbot is a portable IRC chat robot written in the C language that can be taught responses to user inquiries, and even have conversations with them. Darkbot was originally created by Jason Hamilton as an aid for help channels on Intenet Relay Chat.

koizo is an evolution of eMule Plus that was created because of international internet traffic limitations that the main Portuguese ISPs impose on their clients.

Intelligere SCS is a collaboration system with an integrated web conference system ideal for virtual classroom, e-learning and video conference. In order to view an on-line demo use this address http://tinyurl.com/scsdemo (user and pass 'sfguest').

MyChat: A Small light chat for e-commerce websites. Digital CRM Service. Multiple Operators. Easy to implemment, skin allowed. MySQL + Javascript + PHP.

The Node projects is a collection of simple software that can be of use for you as an everyday internet user. We aim to give you a full suite of products suited to your needs. Projects include Node IRC, Node Browser, Node Torrent and Node Player.

OpenBNC is a fork of psyBNC, a widely used IRC Bouncer. It aims to implement a clustering system, MySQL db support, and several improvements such as a web interface, remote bouncer control, support for plugins and flexible control of user permissions.

Tcldrop is basically a clone of the Eggdrop IRC bot, but is being written purely in Tcl. The intention is to write a much more scriptable bot than Eggdrop is. It will run stand-alone or from any Tcl-enabled application (Tcl v8.5+).

eZebra is a new p2p program with functions similar at eMule and Shareaza but we do not take it as a MOD of any of both. We understand it as "the start point of a new p2p generation". And we need you to make us believe we can do better!

Freeircd is a irc server, it has built-in services (nickserv and chanserv) and uses mySQL to save their data. It supports IPv6.