It is an interesting decision to finish the project like this.
I would, in their place, use the chance to free the code into a more permissive license such as MIT, CC0 or the like, but in any event the author is already generous enough to offer it as copyleft; kudos to them.
Discord uses 0% CPU (4770k) and 85mb ram on my pc currently, while being in an active call. What would it take for it to no longer be "too bloated" to have idling in the background?
I've been happily using irssi for several years now, but I know a lot of people who used HexChat, and I used it in the past, along with XChat before it. IRC is pretty simple, so I imagine HexChat will keep working fine for years to come. It may just miss out on some IRCv3 features, and in the worst case some vulnerabilities could go unfixed.
The license seems to be GPL 2.0.
It is an interesting decision to finish the project like this.
I would, in their place, use the chance to free the code into a more permissive license such as MIT, CC0 or the like, but in any event the author is already generous enough to offer it as copyleft; kudos to them.
Relicensing isn't possible because the project doesn't have a single copyright holder.
You're right.
It would require every contributors' permission, as (likely) there was no contribution agreement to transfer ownership.
The author was extra generous and protected your rights by releasing it under the GPL
Ah, I remember using IRC when I was young. Occasionally I've used hexchat to lurk on efnet.
Feels like discord killed off IRC for good. Any reason I should switch to an alternative client for the yearly IRC log-on?
Maybe I can find my ancient mIRC client lying around...
Hopefully a new group of developers joins the project to continue it.
Oh my. Discord is still too bloated compared to IRC to idle on forever the same way many of us would on IRC and occasionally offer tech suppoprt.
Discord uses 0% CPU (4770k) and 85mb ram on my pc currently, while being in an active call. What would it take for it to no longer be "too bloated" to have idling in the background?
Do you use abbaddon or the official client?
The official client.
I've been happily using irssi for several years now, but I know a lot of people who used HexChat, and I used it in the past, along with XChat before it. IRC is pretty simple, so I imagine HexChat will keep working fine for years to come. It may just miss out on some IRCv3 features, and in the worst case some vulnerabilities could go unfixed.
The problem will come when the distros abandon GTK2 and HexChat will no longer be easily buildable.
So long, and thanks for all the fish.