We're not talking abour IRCds, we're talking about servers. A server is not a single peice of software, it is a peice of software running on a computer, providing service to clients, There can be any number of additional layers of hardware and/or software between the daemon itself and incoming client traffic. The nature of the licence for the daemon software changes absolutely nothing about that situation. Therefore, the IRCd in use on any given IRC server is irrelevant as to whether it may be spying on it's users. This is the point I was/am making and, from the way I interpreted your original post, directly contradicts what you were saying.
