Talk:X-Chat
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[edit] Commonly vs. Sometimes
I was quite puzzled about this myself, but after asking the devs the official name is apperently X-Chat and not XChat, however the website says XChat and their internal documentation is never clear, sometimes one is used, sometimes it's the other.
While X-Chat is as i have been told XChat or xchat is a much more common way to refer to it, so i'm writing commonly here and not sometimes. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 17:35, 2004 Jun 12 (UTC)
- While I always spell it "X-Chat", you're absolutely correct about the spelling of "XChat" (though I've never seen it spelled "xchat", except maybe in lowercase filenames or similar). GPHemsley 04:29, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
[edit] "XChat" to "X-Chat" Move
Not that I object to it or anything, but I was just wondering who made th decision to do it. GPHemsley 08:21, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- I took it upon myself to do so, although there was a brief but general concensus on IRC beforehand. As "X-Chat" is indeed the actual name, and is used as such in the article text itself, I didn't imagine there would be a problem. (Yes, it's commonly referred to as "xchat" conversationally; the same goes for "email"—it's a casual convention, but this is an encyclopedia.) Austin Hair 09:19, Jul 18, 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Unofficial build homepage
The homepage of the unofficial build of xchat seems to be down. Anyone got informations on this? --Conti|✉ 19:48, Oct 1, 2004 (UTC)
- It should be known that silverex.(org|info) will go down periodically (if that's what you meant by unofficial – there are a number of sites offering xchat variants), but the host says it shouldn't usually last very long: minutes, not days. I think the machine is used for a multiple things and tends to attract the kind of attention that can knock it off once in a while. It's up now, though, and I call attention to it whenever I find it down (fwiw). — b0at 20:28, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
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- It's been pretty stable for a while; the above notice is probably obsolete. b0at 04:44, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Windows Builds (GPL) - Link down
The link X-Chat on Windows Build Lineup appears to be thoroughly down. If the article has a maintainer, s/he should check up on it and remove the link or replace it with something else.
The only existing arhive.org version of the page can be found here. -Mardus 03:08, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] License in the infobox
A bit misleading to say the Windows version is proprietary, no? It's GPL (besides the nagware portion, apparently) and it's allowed under the GPL to sell your software. Twinxor t 04:11, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
- Of course it is allowed under the GPL to sell your software. However, it is not allowed under GPL to take GPL code that you did not create and relicense it. Especially under a more restrictive license (shareware, in this case). That is what the problem is, not the fact that the author is selling the software. --24.117.122.78 06:30, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
