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# HexChat

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 on HexChat please read our [documentation](https://hexchat.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html):
- [Downloads](http://hexchat.github.io/downloads.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)

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X-Chat ("xchat") Copyright (c) 1998-2010 By Peter Zelezny.  
HexChat ("hexchat") Copyright (c) 2009-2014 By Berke Viktor.
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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.
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