climm

Climm (formerly mICQ ) is a free text-based instant messaging program for the ICQ network, which runs on a variety of platforms, in particular on AmigaOS, BeOS, Windows either Cygwin or MinGW, Mac OS X, NetBSD / OpenBSD / FreeBSD, the Sharp Zaurus, Linux, and most commercial Unices, there especially Solaris, HP- UX and AIX.

Climm has many capabilities of the official ICQ clients. Because of its command line interface, it is also usable for blind users through speech or Braille displays. It provides support for sending and receiving confirmed and unconfirmed Unicode encoded messages ( it understands UTF -8 for message types for which the official client that does not use ) and the detection of other clients.

Climm support to licq SSL-encrypted, compatible direct and SIM Instant Messenger and OTR encrypted messages and is properly internationalized; German, English and other translations are included. climm can use multiple UIN ( user numbers) simultaneously, and is highly configurable (eg different colors for incoming messages from different contacts or different - own - user numbers).

Climm also supports the basic functionality of the XMPP protocol.

Climm is licensed under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License; recently the licensing was extended by the OpenSSL exception. Versions prior to 0.4.8 micq were released by Matt D. Smith as public domain; However, it is left little remains of the original code. All subsequent additions are by Rüdiger Kuhlmann, in particular support for the current ICQ protocol version 8

With the release of version 0.6 on 10 September 2007 mICQ was renamed climm. Climm stands for " CLI -based multi-messenger ".