===== Obtaining the source =====

Prosody is open-source, under the [[MIT]] license. This means that the source code is freely available to download and use however you wish. You may modify the source code, and link it with closed-source applications. That said, we politely request that you do consider sending code improvements to us at the developer [[:discuss#mailing_list|mailing list]].

The full terms of the license are [[MIT|available here]].

===== Downloading a snapshot (tarball) =====

The current development source can always be downloaded from [[http://prosody.im/source/browse/?archive/tip.tar.gz|here]].

The current and past releases are available in our [[:download:|downloads section]].

===== Browsing the source =====

The source repositories of all our active branches is available to browse at [[http://hg.prosody.im/|hg.prosody.im]].

RSS and ATOM feeds are available. An XMPP feed is available on request (you may see it in action in our [[:discuss#chatroom|chatroom]]).

===== Checking out with Mercurial =====

If you want to help out with development, or simply want an easy way to keep up to date with the latest source, we strongly recommend you use [[http://mercurial.selenic.com/|Mercurial]], which is available on most Linux distributions. On Windows we recommend [[http://tortoisehg.sourceforge.net/|TortoiseHg]].

After installing you need to "clone" our repository, which creates a copy on your system under a folder named "prosody-hg":

   hg clone http://hg.prosody.im/trunk prosody-hg

Subsequent updates can be downloaded simply by running:

   hg pull -u

inside the "prosody-hg" folder.

===== Prosody on GitHub =====

Prosody is also available on [[http://github.com/|GitHub]], courtesy of [[http://github.com/bjc|bjc]] who synchronizes with the main [[#Checking out with Mercurial|Prosody repository]] every hour or so.

Web: http://github.com/bjc/prosody \\
Clone URL: [[git>github.com/bjc/prosody.git]]


===== Building and installation =====
For full instructions on how to get things running see [[:doc:installing from source]].