Description:

EPIC4 is a new direction in ircII development. No longer is EPIC
100% backwards compatible with ircII, but instead we have chosen to
find those things where compatibility is undesirable, and fix them.
No gratuitous incompatibilities have been added, but lots of new
code has been added to make EPIC the best ircII client we could make.

EPIC4 is derived directly from EPIC3, which was itself derived from
IRC-II which is currently maintained by Matthew Green, and includes
in whole all the additions included in the "plus" clients by Jeremy
Nelson and all of the modifications in the "mod" clients by Jake Khuon.
EPIC is currently maintained by EPIC Software Labs (ESL), comprised of
a couple of dozen people.