The EULA says you can redistribute mIRC as long as you don't modify it and contact Khaled:

Originally Posted By: EULA
mIRC may only be distributed as part of the original mIRC install file as distributed by mIRC Co. Ltd. mIRC and the mIRC install file may not be distributed as a part of any package and may not be modified, decompiled, disassembled, or reverse engineered.

If you would like to distribute mIRC as part of a magazine, book, cd-rom, website, or any other form of distribution, you must contact mIRC Co. Ltd. for written authorization.


In other words, the official response is: email Khaled and ask.

Practically speaking, though, there are at least a few existing sites that archive old versions of mIRC... and I don't think they got explicit authorization from Khaled-- but I cannot confirm this-- just a feeling I get. Frankly, I'm not even sure how strong a redistribution clause is in the license agreement to begin with, given that you are simply making something available which was freely obtained (free as in freedom, not $$$) on a website. If archive.org is allowed to redistribute html pages from old websites, the same freedom should apply to anything else downloaded from those sites. I'm no lawyer, though.

I would assume that the general rule of thumb is: (1) don't misrepresent mIRC, (2) don't modify the redistributables, (3) take the site down if Khaled asks you to. If you follow those steps, I don't think you should have anything to worry about. Khaled has historically been pretty accepting of people redistributing mIRC as long as they were doing so with good intentions.


- argv[0] on EFnet #mIRC
- "Life is a pointer to an integer without a cast"