Getting the Libpurple Source

(GettingAdiumSource has general information on Mercurial and getting the Adium source code)

libpurple is maintained primarily by the  Pidgin team. You do not need the libpurple source in order to build Adium, as compiled versions of libpurple.framework and its dependencies exist in the Adium source tree in Frameworks.

If you wish to work on changes to libpurple, you'll want to compile it yourself. libpurple and its dependencies are built from their sources using scripts found in Utilities/dep-build-scripts. See the Utilities/dep-build-scripts/README file for details and instructions. You'll need a  Monotone checkout or a  tarball of the Pidgin sources.

libpurple, like Adium, is distributed under the GPL.