Gale

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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 page http://www.gale.org/
Source tarball http://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 List	http://bugs.gale.org/

Project contacts

Maintainers	Dan Egnor <ten.bfo.elbisiiivni@ronge>
Developers	Dan Egnor <ten.bfo.elbisiiivni@ronge>

Related information

Source repository	http://ofb.net/cvs/
Interfaces	command line
Programs	gsend
Source languages	C
Build prerequisites	Open SSL, ADNS, iconv, Boehm conservative garbage collector
Related programs	Praya

Entry information

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

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