# HexChat [](https://travis-ci.org/hexchat/hexchat) [](http://nekomimi.cloudapp.net:8080/job/hexchat/) [](https://bitdeli.com/free "Bitdeli Badge") 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) --- <sub> X-Chat ("xchat") Copyright (c) 1998-2010 By Peter Zelezny. HexChat ("hexchat") Copyright (c) 2009-2014 By Berke Viktor. </sub> <sub> 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. </sub>