nmdc-ircfrontend/README.md
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Rosella
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About
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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
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* 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
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Patches and pull requests are welcome as long as they follow the design
principles I have laid.
License
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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/>.