An instant messaging backend  for Windows, Linux, BSD, and
other Unixes. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN
Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ,
Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, and Zephyr.

This library requires a frontend to be useful, such as the graphical user
interface Pidgin, or the console interface Finch.