Re: Non-copyleft IRC servers
On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 01:00:57PM -0700, Eric Pruitt wrote: > Does anyone have recommendations for a maintained IRC server that > doesn't have a copyleft license? There are only a few listed on > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_Relay_Chat_daemons, > and they don't seem to be maintained. Any runtime is fine, but I'm > partial to C, and DCC support would be nice but isn't a hard > requirement. I found Oragono, an MIT-licensed server written in Go (https://github.com/oragono/oragono). Go limits its portability, and I know there have been issues with Go on BSDs in the past, but my IRC server is hosted on a Linux box making this a non-issue for me right now.
Re: Non-copyleft IRC servers
Eric Pruitt writes: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 10:15:04PM +0200, Solene Rapenne wrote: >> Eric Pruitt wrote: >> > Does anyone have recommendations for a maintained IRC server that >> > doesn't have a copyleft license? There are only a few listed on >> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_Relay_Chat_daemons, >> > and they don't seem to be maintained. Any runtime is fine, but I'm >> > partial to C, and DCC support would be nice but isn't a hard >> > requirement. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Eric >> >> net/ngircd is fine > > The GPL is a copyleft license. The problem you're going to have with IRC servers is most of them are based on ircd 2.8. The original sources out of the University of Oulu were also GPL'd so its decendents are as well. -Daniel
Re: Non-copyleft IRC servers
On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 10:15:04PM +0200, Solene Rapenne wrote: > Eric Pruitt wrote: > > Does anyone have recommendations for a maintained IRC server that > > doesn't have a copyleft license? There are only a few listed on > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_Relay_Chat_daemons, > > and they don't seem to be maintained. Any runtime is fine, but I'm > > partial to C, and DCC support would be nice but isn't a hard > > requirement. > > > > Thanks, > > Eric > > net/ngircd is fine The GPL is a copyleft license.
Re: Non-copyleft IRC servers
Eric Pruitt wrote: > Does anyone have recommendations for a maintained IRC server that > doesn't have a copyleft license? There are only a few listed on > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_Relay_Chat_daemons, > and they don't seem to be maintained. Any runtime is fine, but I'm > partial to C, and DCC support would be nice but isn't a hard > requirement. > > Thanks, > Eric net/ngircd is fine
