# TorxChat TorxChat is a fork of HexChat, an IRC client for Windows and UNIX-like operating systems. See [IRCHelp.org](http://irchelp.org) for information about IRC in general. --- X-Chat ("xchat") Copyright (c) 1998-2010 By Peter Zelezny. HexChat ("hexchat") Copyright (c) 2009-2014 By Berke Viktor. TorxChat ("torxchat") Copyright (c) 2018-2020 By Soni L.. 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.