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## About

Spectrum 2 is an XMPP transport/gateway and also simple server.
It allows XMPP users to communicate with their friends who are using one of the supported networks.
It supports a wide range of different networks such as ICQ, XMPP (Jabber, GTalk), AIM, MSN, Facebook, Twitter, or IRC.
Spectrum 2 is written in C++ and uses the [Swiften](http://swift.im/swiften) library and various different libraries for "legacy networks".
Spectrum 2 is open source and released under the GNU GPL.