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Gale - Instant messaging software

Gale is a messaging system resembling Zephyr in UI and social characteristics, but IRC in architecture, with some features of its own. It supports the use of public-key cryptography for privacy and authentication.

It has a spanning-tree topology with failover, little server state, no concept of "op privileges", security through end-to-end encryption, multi-line messages, and command-line-driven clients, and directed categories, which prevents unnecessary distribution of messages.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.gale.org/
Source tarballhttp://download.gale.org/gale.tar.gz
Version 0.99 (beta) released on 2001-06-29
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

User tutorial and guide available from http://gale.org/users/; developer's guide available from http://gale.org/arch/index.html
Support contacts

Announce List<gale-announce@gale.org>
Help List<gale-users@gale.org>
Bug Listhttp://bugs.gale.org/

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers

Related information

Source repositoryhttp://ofb.net/cvs/
Interfacescommand line
Programsgsend
Source languagesC
Build prerequisitesOpen SSL, ADNS, iconv, Boehm conservative garbage collector
Related programsPraya

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-07-10
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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