ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
http://ngircd.barton.de/
- (c)2001-2011 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
+ (c)2001-2012 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
ngIRCd is free software and published under the
terms of the GNU General Public License.
ngIRCd is an Open Source server for the Internet Relay Chat (IRC), which
is developed and published under the terms of the GNU General Public
-Licence (URL: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html). ngIRCd means "next
-generation IRC daemon", it's written from scratch and not deduced from the
-"grandfather of IRC daemons", the daemon of the IRCNet.
+Licence, see the file COPYING for details. ngIRCd means "next generation
+IRC daemon" (which is a little bit exaggerated, "lightweight Internet Relay
+Chat server" would be better), it's written from scratch and not deduced
+from the "grandfather of IRC daemons", the daemon of the IRCNet.
Please see the INSTALL document for installation and upgrade information!
III. Features (or: why use ngIRCd?)
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-- no problems with servers which have dynamic IP addresses
-- simple, easy understandable configuration file,
-- freely published open-source C source code,
-- ngIRCd will be developed on in the future.
+- well arranged (lean) configuration file
+- simple to build/install, configure and maintain
+- supports IPv6 and SSL
+- no problems with servers that have dynamic IP addresses
+- freely available, modern, portable and tidy C-source
- wide field of supported platforms, including AIX, A/UX, FreeBSD, HP-UX,
IRIX, Linux, Mac OS X, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows with Cygwin.
+- ngIRCd is being actively developed since 2001.
IV. Documentation
projects / ngircd-alex.git / blobdiff