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# HexChat [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/hexchat/hexchat.png)](https://travis-ci.org/hexchat/hexchat)

X-Chat ("xchat") Copyright (c) 1998-2010 By Peter Zelezny.  
HexChat ("hexchat") Copyright (c) 2009-2013 By Berke Viktor.

This program is released under the GPL v2 with the additional exemption
that compiling, linking, and/or using OpenSSL is allowed. You may
provide binary packages linked to the OpenSSL libraries, provided that
all other requirements of the GPL are met.
See file COPYING for details.

## Information

HexChat is an IRC client for Windows and UNIX-like operating systems.
See [IRCHelp.org](http://irchelp.org) for information about IRC in general.

For more information please read our [documentation](https://hexchat.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html):
- [FAQ](https://hexchat.readthedocs.org/en/latest/faq.html)
- [Changelog](https://hexchat.readthedocs.org/en/latest/changelog.html)
- [Python API](https://hexchat.readthedocs.org/en/latest/script_python.html)
- [Perl API](https://hexchat.readthedocs.org/en/latest/script_perl.html)

## Requirements

- GTK+ 2.24
- GLib 2.28

HexChat is known to work on, at least:

- Windows Vista/7/8
- Linux
- FreeBSD
- OpenBSD
- NetBSD
- Solaris
- AIX
- IRIX
- DEC/Compaq Tru64 UNIX
- HP-UX 10.20 and 11
- OS X