Trying to understand Pidgin from a developer's perspective

[Constantine Kharlamov]

On 26.05.2017 16:06, Abhishek Ranjan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have just started using Pidgin to build a instant messaging system along with ejabberd. I have few questions regarding Pidgin that I wanted to be sure about :
> 
> 1) Is pidgin a open source?
> 
> as I have found the source code at this link https://github.com/tieto/pidgin
> 
> and I wanted to know that whether it is a correct repository for downloading pidgin's source code and is it open source?

Yes, it's open source, the main repo is here https://bitbucket.org/pidgin/main/src

I'm not a pidgin dev, so I can't elaborate for the rest of the points, but I think you might be interested in this https://developer.pidgin.im/