irc itself doesn't have source code, it's just a set of instructions on how servers and clients should communicate. There's stuff like this: ircv3 which defines how ircv3 works. and gives info on how the old school irc stuff worked as well.
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2021
10 points (85.7% liked)
Open Source
32665 readers
1024 users here now
All about open source! Feel free to ask questions, and share news, and interesting stuff!
Useful Links
- Open Source Initiative
- Free Software Foundation
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Software Freedom Conservancy
- It's FOSS
- Android FOSS Apps Megathread
Rules
- Posts must be relevant to the open source ideology
- No NSFW content
- No hate speech, bigotry, etc
Related Communities
Community icon from opensource.org, but we are not affiliated with them.
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
IRC is a protocol, there's implementations of it like Librechat: https://libera.chat/contributing/development/
IRC is a protocol and specification. There are many projects that independently implement it and thus there isn't any specific IRC source-code.
Where is the FTP and IMAP source code?
PROTIP: there isn't any.
Checkmate open source community!
PROTIP: there isn’t any.
The RFC specifications? That's the closest thing to a source code for those.
Maybe you mean the various IRC apps' source code? That is per app. IRC itself is just an open documented protocol (so not source code at all). More info on IRC's protocol standards at https://ircv3.net/irc/.
view more: next ›