Rosella

About

Rosella is a small ircd (Internet Relay Chat Daemon). It partially implements RFC2812, but will never be fully compliant.

Rosella is intended to provide a portable, light-weight, near-zero-conf ircd capable of handling many simultaneous connections, whilst providing as much privacy for its users as possible.

Rosella is not production ready, or recommended for large-scale usage.

An x.509 key and certificate are required to open a TLS listener. Proper key handling and certificate checking is the responsibility of the users. Rosella cannot protect you from stupidity or untrustworthy CA's.

Design Principles

• Rosella will not spy upon its users, or log them in any way.

• Rosella will not communicate with any users in plaintext.

• Rosella will not provide any mechanism for identifying other users beyond their nicknames.

• Rosella will not allow any users to spy upon any other users.

• Rosella's source code will remain simple and easy to read to enable quick and easy code-reviews by its users.

Contributing

Patches and pull requests are welcome as long as they follow the design principles I have laid.

License

Copyright (C) 2013 Harry Jeffery

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.