Open Source C Chat Software

See https://pidgin.im/about/ for more information. Pidgin is an instant messaging program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. It runs on Windows, Linux, and other UNIX operating systems. Pidgin is compatible with the following chat networks out of the box: AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, MXit, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr. It is written in C and makes heavy use of GLib and GTK+. Finch is a command line instant messaging program. It also lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat network simultaneously, and it is compatible with the same chat networks as Pidgin. It is written in C and makes heavy use of GLib and ncurses.

emesene is a platform independent instant messaging client for the Windows Live Messenger (tm) network. emesene is distributed free of charge under the GNU General Public License 2 or any later version.

[ Please read https://sourceforge.net/p/darkbot/news/2014/01/darkbots-revitalization/ ] Darkbot is a portable IRC chat robot written in the C language that can be taught responses to user inquiries, and even have conversations with them. Darkbot was originally created by Jason Hamilton as an aid for help channels on Intenet Relay Chat.

Yammy (Yahoo Messenger Archive Decoder) allows you to decode and view not only yours but, also other stored YM conversations. You don't even need a password!

Jabberwocky is a jabber client software for Amiga Computers. It is open source and released under the GNU GPL License.

A fork of pidgin which aims to provide minor features that have not been addressed by the pidgin development team (including manual textbox resizing). See funpidgin.sf.net for details.

IRC Services for recent P10N2K compatible ircds (IRCu and IRCoderz). Channel & Username (Nickname enforcement, Memoserv) management features. Also includes a Database Server for Web Services.

NOTE: This code has not been updated since 2005. Keeping it here for historical purposes. NOTE2: The code will not most probably compile against latest SILC libraries or with latest GTK either. Silky WAS a secure chat client for SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) protocol. The code is written in C and the GUI is implemented using the GTK toolkit. Supported operating systems include Linux and Windows.

Unicode File Sharing and Chat client with remote control via MUSCLE compatible BeShare client.

usic [Uniform Services Irc Client] is an automatic IRC Client (bot) with the abillity of use custom made plugins.