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 #### About
 
-HexChat is an IRC client based on XChat, but unlike XChat it's completely free for both Windows and Unix-like systems. Since XChat is open source, it's perfectly legal. For more info, please read the [Shareware background](shareware.html).
+HexChat is an IRC client based on XChat, but unlike XChat it's completely free for both Windows and Unix-like systems. Since XChat is free software, it's perfectly legal. For more info, please read the [Shareware background](shareware.html).
 
 HexChat was originally called XChat-WDK which in turn was a successor of freakschat. For more info, please read the [announcement](news/announcement.html).
 <a href="screenshots.html"><img class="thumb" src="/img/thumb.png" alt="hexchat screenshot" width="305" height="229"></a>