What is "mcabber"

MCabber is a free software client for the instant messaging protocol XMPP with a text user interface based on ncurses. It runs on a range of platforms, including Linux, BSD, and Mac OS X. As free software it is freely available – including the source code – under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). MCabber is the successor of Alejandro Jimenez Macias' (AJMacias, Winnetou) earlier Cabber that has had releases from 2002 to 2004. In 2005 it has been forked off the last version of Cabber (0.5.0).