Italk, the Next Innovation.

What's "Italk, the Next Innovation?"

"Italk, the Next Innovation." is an italk server. It runs under UNIX and cygwin environment. (It is abbreviated to "inid.")

Features

• A server of the italk chat system. The system is characterized in keeping all chat logs to publish via WWW and stand-alone server configuration. Inid supports Italk Protocol 1.0 (see itproto.txt in the distribution archive of inid).
• Fast and solid enough to employ as a 24h-available chat server.
• Portable. Inid is described in standardized C++ language construction and POSIX functions.
• Freely available under Italk license (based on BSD-style license). Open source.

Multi-thread (multiple room) is introduced. (version 1.04 or later)

Distribution

• Source archive spool
  • version 1.05 download (tar+gz, 376Kbytes)
• CVS Repository
  • CVSweb
  • Anonymous CVS service
    :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/italk/servers/inid
    
• inid for Win
  Win32 (VC++) port of inid.

Development

Documents for developers

• Coding style guide
• Management policy for inid CVS repository

Copyright Notice

The license of inid is based on BSD-style license, we call Italk license. To use, copy, modify, and distribute this software is permitted under Italk license. Italk license is originally written in Japanese and the Japanese version primarily has a validity in the law. The following translated license, just same that BSD-style license, may be correct but we cannot warrant.

Copyright (c) 1999 NAKAMURA Takayuki
All rights reserved.

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
3. Neither the name of NAKAMURA Takayuki nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Brief History of This Page

• Jun 13, 2004: version 1.05 is released.
• Jan 18, 2003: version 1.04 is released.
• May 21, 2000: version 1.02 is released.
• May 14, 2000: version 1.01 is released.