Free oscar software for linux

Pidgin, previously known as Gaim, is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. Pidgin messenger is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, SILC, Gadu-Gadu, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks.
Pidgin users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AOL Instant Messenger, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time.
Pidgin supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer, away messages, typing notification, and MSN window closing notification. It also goes beyond that and provides many unique features.
A few popular features are Buddy Pounces, which give the ability to notify you, send a message, play a sound, or run a program when a specific buddy goes away, signs online, or returns from idle; and plugins, consisting of text replacement, a buddy ticker, extended message notification, iconify on away, spell checking, tabbed conversations, and more.
Pidgin runs on a number of platforms, including Windows, Linux, and Qtopia (Sharp Zaurus and iPaq).
Pidgin integrates well with GNOME 2 and KDE 3.1s system tray, as well as Windowss own system tray. This allows you to work with Pidgin without requiring the buddy list window to be up at all times.
Pidgin is under constant development, and releases are usually frequent. The latest news regarding Pidgin can be found on the news page.
Enhancements:
- libpurple:
- Core changes to allow UIs to use second-granularity for scheduling. Pidgin and Finch, which use the glib event loop, were changed to use g_timeout_add_seconds() on glib >= 2.14 when possible. This allows glib to better group our longer timers to increase power efficiency. (Arjan van de Ven with Intel Corporation)
- No longer linkifies screennames containing @ signs in join/part notifications in chats
- With the HTML logger, images in conversations are now saved. NOTE: Saved images are not yet displayed when loading logs.
- Added support for QIP logs to the Log Reader plugin (Michael Shkutkov)
Pidgin:
- Ensure only one copy of Pidgin is running with a given configuration directory. The net effect of this is that trying to start Pidgin a second time will raise the buddy list. (Gabriel Schulhof)
- Undo capability in the conversation window
- The formatting toolbar has been reorganized to be more concise.
- A new status area has been added to the top of conversations to provide additional detail about the buddy, including buddy icon, protocol and status message.
- Show idle times in the buddy list as days, hours, seconds
Finch:
- Theres support for workspaces now (details in the manpage)
- Theres a new custom window manager, Irssi
- Some improvements for tab-completion, tooltip and the password entries
- Some bugs regarding search results fixed
- A new DBus-script to create a docklet for finch
- Support for showing empty groups in the buddy list (Eric Polino)

POE::Component::OSCAR is a POE component for the Net::OSCAR module.

SYNOPSIS

use POE qw(Component::OSCAR);

[ ... POE set up ... ]

sub _start { # start an OSCAR session $oscar = POE::Component::OSCAR->new();
# start an OSCAR session with automatic throttling of new connections
# to prevent being banned by the server
$oscar = POE::Component::OSCAR->new( throttle => 4 );

# set up the "im_in" callback to call your state, "im_in_state"
$oscar->set_callback( im_in => im_in_state);

# its good to detect errors if you dont want to get banned
$oscar->set_callback( error => error_state );
$oscar->set_callback( admin_error => admin_erro_stater );
$oscar->set_callback( rate_alert => rate_alert_state );

# sign on
$oscar->signon( screenname => $MY_SCREENNAME, password => $MY_PASSWORD );
}
sub im_in_state { my ($nothing, $args) = @_[ARG0..$#_]; my ($object, $who, $what, $away) = @$args;
print "Got $what from $whon";
}

jcq2k is an ICQ Java client, implemented as an opensource LGPL library, for handling the TCP-based ICQ2000 OSCAR v.7 protocol. Incoming offline messages do not work but it looks like that the fix by James Hui solves this issue.

Twisted Words library provides implementations of a handful of IM protocols, including IRC, MSNP8, OSCAR, TOC, and Jabber.

Twisted Words provides two separate high-level end-user features:

a multiprotocol instant messaging server
a multiprotocol instant messaging client

These are both still in the early stages of development and are not expected to work flawlessly in all configurations, however each is quite usable for a limited set of functionality. A Twisted Words server can be created with just a couple commands:

$ mktap words --irc-port 6667 --pb-port 8787 --passwd password_file --group somegroup
$ twistd -f words.tap

The Twisted Words client is named im and is usable as an IRC client, and possibly an AIM client (depending on the phase of the moon).

Low Level Functionality:

Twisted Words also includes:

Low-level protocol implementations of OSCAR (AIM and ICQ), IRC, MSN, TOC (AIM).
Jabber libraries.

Prototypes of chat server and client frameworks built on top of the protocols.

ptyaim is a very simple, extra special curses client for AOLs Instant Messenger (AIM) and ICQ services, plus Internet Relay Chat (IRC). ptyaims project interface is somewhat inspired by naim. However, it uses no code from naim.
The latest version of ptyaim has been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, Tru64 Unix, Mac OS 10.3, and Microsoft Windows 2000. Most likely, it will work on other platforms, too.
Enhancements:
- This new version of ptyaim features improvements to the OSCAR plugin, including support for group chat.
- The TOC plugin has also been removed.

Spartan-style ICQ clone written in Python.
INSTALLATION
unpack the source code into directory you want py-icq to be stored in.
cd YOUR_DIR; gunzip -c py-icq-(release_num).tar.gz | tar xfv -
cd py-icq
sudo make install
what actually happens is tiny shell script created in your bin catalog, that calls python interpreter with ./src/main.py as aparameter.
at this point, your shell may want you to rehash search paths and hopefully you can run the client.
Main features:
- free, under BSD-style license
- runs on any platform with Python installed (*NIX, Mac, Win32, others)
- able to support different GUI fron-ends
- uses AIM Oscar protocol
Enhancements:
- path hook added to give an ability to run
- normally from any place
- socket errors exceptions handling
- ugly install added
- tkinter GUI changes:
- password prompt when starting
- buddy status in the contact list
- offgoing/ongoing buddy handlinG

DJWrap is an open format for combining several mp3s into one (wrapping) , without losing information about where the songs begin and where they end, or what file names they had, allowing them to later be turned back into separate files.
The idea of DJWrap is in many ways the same as the AlbumWrap (ALBW) format, and the MP3Wrap format, though DJWrap has some extra features.
libdjwrap is a library that eases the handling of these wrapped files. It can parse DJWrap, AlbumWrap and MP3Wrap files, as well as output DJWrap files. It can be incorporated into software which wants a more intelligent handling of wrapped files. This would mainly be music players and CD writing software.
The library, libdjwrap, comes with a tool, aptly named djwrap. It gives a command line interface to various functions of the library, allowing a user to extract songs from a DJWrap, AlbumWrap or MP3Wrap file, as well as create their own DJWrap files.
There is also a graphical tool, using libdjwrap, for handling wrapped files. Its due for release any time now.
Enhancements:
- There is a bug in DJWrap 0.9.3 that became apparent when its used in MooseWrap.
- A function in the library returns the wrong value at a point, which makes software using DJWrap stop before writing a wrap do disk.

SIM Instant Messenger provides an plugins-based instant messenger with support for various protocols.
Based on the Qt library it works on X11 (optional with KDE-support), MS Windows and MacOS X.
Main modules
- Core (_core) is the program interface
- Migrate (__migrate) Converts the old SIM 0.8.3-settings to the new 0.9x format
- Homedir (__homedir) sets the configuration-directory
Protocols modules
All protocols support richtext-messages, file transfer, typing notification, server-side contact list (with postponed synchronization - you can change contact list in offline mode and after log on all changes will be synchronized with server), new account registration, various searches and HTTP-polling.
You can use multiple accounts for each protocol.
- Oscar - ICQ and AIM support
- Jabber
- LiveJournal
- MSN
- Yahoo!
Enhancements:
Build system
- Autotools: fix libXss detection.
- Add initial CMake support.
Core
- Disable history filter when it is empty.
- Remove "To container" menu when separate containers are disabled.
- Auto scroll message view only if it is scrolled to the bottom.
- XFree: fix problems with Composite extension enabled.
ICQ plugin
- More fixes for receiving certain messages.