Open Source BSD Chat Software - Page 2

X-Chat Aqua is X-Chat with an Aqua interface for MacOS X. X-Chat Aqua uses the irc engine from X-Chat, and is designed to look and feel like the GTK+ front end.

Omeclone is an open-source clone of the Omegle-style anonymous chat platform, designed to replicate real-time, random user matching for text and potentially video communication. It provides a backend and frontend system that enables users to connect with strangers anonymously, mimicking the core experience of random chat services. The project typically includes WebSocket-based communication for real-time messaging, ensuring low latency and continuous interaction between users. It emphasizes simplicity and scalability, allowing developers to deploy their own instances of anonymous chat platforms with minimal setup. The architecture is designed to handle user pairing, session management, and message routing efficiently. It also serves as a learning resource for developers interested in building real-time communication systems and matchmaking algorithms.

Ayttm is an instant messenger program, supporting various protocols such as MSN, Yahoo, AIM, Jabber, and more. It is the heir of the Everybuddy project, and aims to continue improving the program and addressing its shortcomings.

Dolphin Pro is a full-featured integrated Social CMS. Dolphin includes media server, video converter, media sharing modules, social profiles, chat, messenger, timeline, events, groups, store, blogs, forums and more.

Nicotine+ is a fork of Hyriand's Soulseek PyGTK2 client, Nicotine. Fixing bugs, adding new features, and keeping up-to-date with Soulseek's protocol is the goal of this project. The most popular Multi-OS Soulseek client is getting an upgrade.

IRCD-Hybrid is a lightweight, high-performance Internet Relay Chat server.

pisg is a smart Perl script which generates nice looking statistics out from IRC logfiles. It's a funny thing for the users of your channel :)

Coccinella is a free and open-source cross-platform communication tool with a built-in whiteboard for improved collaboration with other people.

Discord Ollama Integration is a TypeScript-based Discord bot that integrates directly with the Ollama runtime to provide conversational AI capabilities inside Discord servers. The project is designed to turn any Discord channel into an interactive AI assistant powered by locally hosted large language models, allowing users to chat, manage models, and control AI behavior through slash commands. It includes extensive command support for tasks such as summarization, model switching, listing available models, and pulling new models from the Ollama library. The system is built with multi-user support in mind, enabling simultaneous conversations while maintaining contextual awareness at the channel and user level. It also handles long outputs by splitting responses beyond Discord’s message limits, ensuring smooth interaction even with large generated responses. The project supports Docker-based deployment, making it easy to run both the bot and Ollama server in a containerized environment.

NSQ is a realtime distributed messaging platform that is designed to scale, and can even handle billions of messages daily. It promotes distributed and decentralized topologies, allowing it high availability and fault tolerance along with guaranteed reliable message delivery. NSQ scales horizontally and is easy to configure and deploy. It is agnostic to data format, so messages can be in JSON, MsgPack, Protocol Buffers, or anything else. Official Go and Python libraries are available, and so are many other community-supported libraries. Binary releases are published for Linux, freebsd, darwin and Windows as well as an official Docker image.

[IMPORTANT] Retroshare is now distributed on Github. Please go to http://retroshare.net to find the latest releases and sources. RetroShare is a cross-platform, secured and decentralized communication system. It lets you to securely chat, share photos, videos, and more with family and friends, using OpenPGP to authenticate peers and OpenSSL to encrypt all communication.

Kadu is a dynamically evolving instant messenger compatible with the Gadu-Gadu and XMPP protocol. It can be run on all platforms supporting the Qt toolkit.

Voodoo Chat is the fast, convenient, easily customized php-chat with Push-messaging (continuous updating). It can handle hundreds of simultaneous users and gives a lot of features like private messages, ignoring, user-profiles with photos, themes, e.t.c.

Mibew Messenger is an open-source live support application allowing visitors of your site to chat with your operators.

MOVED: This project has moved to https://github.com/Frug/AJAX-Chat AJAX Chat is a fully customizable web chat implemented in JavaScript, PHP and MySQL which integrates nicely with common forum systems like phpBB, MyBB, PunBB, SMF and vBulletin. A Flash and Ruby based socket connection can be used to boost performance.

"Mibew Messenger" - is unique software allowing visitors of your site to chat with your operators. This repo should be treated as an obsolete. For modern version of Mibew Messenger see https://sourceforge.net/projects/mibew/

Anope Services are built off of the original Epona code written by Lara which is built off of IRC Services. These services have advanced the original Epona code and include new features such as Modules, Mysql, and Defcon Mode.

NOTE! xg moved to github, no mor updates are published to sourceforge! see you @ http://github.com/lformella/xdcc-grabscher

libircclient is a small but powerful library, which implements client-server IRC protocol. It has all features needed to create your own IRC client or bot, including multi-threading support, sync and async interfaces, CTCP/DCC support, colors, SSL connections and so on.

See http://silcnet.org/ for detailed information. SILC provides common chat and conferencing services like private messages, instant messages, channels and groups, and video and audio conferencing. The main difference to other protocols is that SILC has been designed with security as its main feature. All packets and messages sent in SILC network are always encrypted. Private messages are encrypted end-to-end, channel message are encrypted with channel-wide secret key and secure file transfer is protected peer-to-peer.

Plugin for ChatZilla which monitors torrent IRC announce channels, downloads torrent files based on a user-defined filter, and then sends the torrent files to a local or remote torrent client. Supports several different private trackers.

WASTE is a mesh-based workgroup tool that allows for encrypted, private communication between distant parties on the internet, independant of local network organization.

YSM is a simple ICQ client based on the v7/v8 icq protocol version. Free of external libraries requirements, written in the C Language.

ufdbGuard is a URL filter to block unwanted web content on the internet. ufdbGuard can also enforce Google SafeSearch, detect UltraSurf, Tor, Skype and other chat applications, proxy tunnels and enforce safer HTTPS traffic. ufdbGuard is a redirector for the Squid web proxy with 200,000 URL verifications/second. ufdbGuard integrates with user authorities like LDAP, Kerberos and Active Directory to assign different policies to different groups of users. Contact the support desk at www.urlfilterdb.com for information about the ufdbGuard API which can be integrated in 3rd party applications.

Encryption plugin for Pidgin, providing up to 4096 bit RSA encryption using the NSS crypto library from Mozilla. Keys are automatically transmitted and stored, making it very easy to use, but also resistant to man-in-the-middle attacks.