Nicotine+

Authors

Nicotine+ Team

Mat (mathiascode)

• Maintainer (2020–present)
• Developer

Adam Cécile (eLvErDe)

• Maintainer (2013–2016)
• Domain name administrator
• Source code migration from SVN to GitHub
• Developer

Han Boetes

• Tester
• Documentation
• Bug hunting
• Translation management

alekksander

• Tester
• Redesign of some graphics

slook

• Tester
• Accessibility improvements

ketacat

• Tester

Nicotine+ Team (Emeritus)

daelstorm

• Maintainer (2004–2009)
• Developer

quinox

• Maintainer (2009–2012)
• Developer

Michael Labouebe (gfarmerfr)

• Maintainer (2016–2017)
• Developer

Kip Warner

• Maintainer (2018–2020)
• Developer
• Debianization

gallows (aka ‘burp O’)

• Developer
• Packager
• Submitted Slack.Build file

hedonist (formerly known as alexbk)

• OS X Nicotine.app maintainer / developer
• Author of PySoulSeek, used for Nicotine core

lee8oi

• Bash commander
• New and updated /alias

INMCM

• Nicotine+ topic maintainer on ubuntuforums.org

suser-guru

• Suse Linux packager
• Nicotine+ RPM’s for Suse 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.0, 10.1

osiris

• Handy-man
• Documentation
• Some GNU/Linux packaging
• Nicotine+ on Win32
• Author of Nicotine+ guide

Mutnick

• Created Nicotine+ GitHub organization
• Developer

Lene Preuss

• Python 3 migration
• Unit and DEP-8 continuous integration testing

Nicotine Team (Emeritus)

Ingmar K. Steen (Hyriand)

• Maintainer (2003–2004)

daelstorm

• Beta tester
• Designer of most of the settings
• Made the Nicotine icons

SmackleFunky

• Beta tester

Wretched

• Beta tester
• Bringer of great ideas

(va)*10^3

• Beta tester
• Designer of Nicotine homepage and artwork (logos)

sierracat

• MacOSX tester
• soulseeX developer

Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro

• Created the exception dialog

SeeSchloss

• Developer
• Created 1.0.8 Win32 installer
• Created Soulfind, open source Soulseek server written in D

vasi

• Mac developer
• Packaged Nicotine on OSX PowerPC

PySoulSeek Team (Emeritus)

Alexander Kanavin

• Maintainer (2001–2003)

Nir Arbel

• Helped with many protocol questions, and of course he designed and implemented the whole system

Brett W. Thompson (Zip)

• His client code was used to get an initial impression of how the system works
• Supplied the patch for logging chat conversations

Josselin Mouette

• Official Debian package maintainer

blueboy

• Former unofficial Debian package maintainer

Christian Swinehart

• Fink package maintainer

Ingmar K. Steen (Hyriand)

• Patches for upload bandwidth management, banning, various UI improvements and more

Geert Kloosterman

• A script for importing Windows Soulseek configuration

Joe Halliwell

• Submitted a patch for optionally discarding search results after closing a search tab

Alexey Vyskubov

• Code cleanups

Jason Green (SmackleFunky)

• Ignore list and auto-join checkbox, wishlists

Translators

Albanian

• W L (2023–2024)

Arabic

• ButterflyOfFire (2024)

Catalan

• Aniol (2024–2025)
• Maite Guix (2022)

Chinese (Simplified)

• Ys413 (2024)
• Bonislaw (2023)
• hylau (2023)
• hadwin (2022)

Czech

• slrslr (2024–2025)
• burnmail123 (2021–2023)

Danish

• mathsped (2003–2004)

Dutch

• Toine Rademacher (toineenzo) (2023–2024)
• Han Boetes (hboetes) (2021–2024)
• Kenny Verstraete (2009)
• nince78 (2007)
• Ingmar K. Steen (Hyriand) (2003–2004)

English

• slook (2021–2024)
• Han Boetes (hboetes) (2021–2024)
• Mat (mathiascode) (2020–2024)
• Michael Labouebe (gfarmerfr) (2016)
• daelstorm (2004–2009)
• Ingmar K. Steen (Hyriand) (2003–2004)

Esperanto

• phlostically (2021)

Estonian

• rimasx (2024)
• PriitUring (2023)

Euskara

• Julen (2006–2007)

Finnish

• Kari Viittanen (Kalevi) (2006–2007)

French

• Saumon (2023)
• subu_versus (2023)
• zniavre (2007–2023)
• Maxime Leroy (Lisapple) (2021–2022)
• Mohamed El Morabity (melmorabity) (2021–2024)
• m-balthazar (2020)
• Michael Labouebe (gfarmerfr) (2016–2017)
• Monsieur Poisson (2009–2010)
• ManWell (2007)
• systr (2006)
• Julien Wajsberg (flashfr) (2003–2004)

German

• Han Boetes (hboetes) (2021–2024)
• phelissimo_ (2023)
• Meokater (2007)
• (._.) (2007)
• lippel (2004)
• Ingmar K. Steen (Hyriand) (2003–2004)

Hungarian

• Szia Tomi (2022–2024)
• Nils (2009)
• David Balazs (djbaloo) (2006–2020)

Italian

• Gabriele (Gabboxl) (2022–2023)
• ms-afk (2023)
• Gianluca Boiano (2020–2023)
• nicola (2007)
• dbazza (2003–2004)

Latvian

• Pagal3 (2022–2025)

Lithuanian

• mantas (2020)
• Žygimantas Beručka (2006–2009)

Norwegian Bokmål

• Allan Nordhøy (comradekingu) (2021)

Polish

• Mariusz (mariachini) (2017–2024)
• Amun-Ra (2007)
• thine (2007)
• Wojciech Owczarek (owczi) (2003–2004)

Portuguese (Brazil)

• Havokdan (2022–2024)
• Guilherme Santos (2022)
• b1llso (2022)
• Nicolas Abril (2021)
• yyyyyyyan (2020)
• Felipe Nogaroto Gonzalez (Suicide|Solution) (2006)

Portuguese (Portugal)

• ssantos (2023)
• Vinícius Soares (2023)

Romanian

• Slendi (xslendix) (2023)

Russian

• Kirill Feoktistov (SnIPeRSnIPeR) (2022–2024)
• Mehavoid (2021–2023)
• AHOHNMYC (2022)

Slovak

• Jozef Říha (2006–2008)

Spanish (Chile)

• MELERIX (2021–2023)
• tagomago (2021–2022)
• Strange (2021)
• Silvio Orta (2007)
• Dreslo (2003–2004)

Spanish (Spain)

• gallegonovato (2023–2024)
• MELERIX (2021–2023)
• tagomago (2021–2022)
• Strange (2021)
• Silvio Orta (2007)
• Dreslo (2003–2004)

Swedish

• mitramai (2021)
• Markus Magnuson (alimony) (2003–2004)

Tamil

• தமிழ்நேரம் (2025)

Turkish

• Oğuz Ersen (2021–2024)

Ukrainian

• Oleg Gritsun (2024–2025)
• uniss2209 (2022)

Contributors

• (._.)
• Adam Cécile
• AHOHNMYC
• alekksander
• Alexander Kanavin
• Alexey Vyskubov
• Allan Nordhøy
• Amun-Ra
• Aniol
• Artem
• AtticFinder65536
• Attila Fidan
• Avery
• b1llso
• baloo79
• bgo-eiu
• blueboy
• Bonislaw
• boredcar
• Boris Topalov
• Brett W. Thompson
• Bugmenot
• burnmail123
• ButterflyOfFire
• Cata
• César Augusto do Nascimento
• Chris McKenzie
• Christian Swinehart
• chz
• Coda
• cwpute
• daelstorm
• David Balazs
• dbazza
• Dreslo
• dtalens
• Elias Groß
• Emily
• Eryk Michalak
• Everly
• Felipe Nogaroto Gonzalez
• fkobi
• Gabriele
• gahag
• gallegonovato
• gallows
• Geert Kloosterman
• gfarmerfr
• Gianluca Boiano
• Guilherme Santos
• Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
• hadwin
• Han Boetes
• Havokdan
• hednod
• Héliaz
• homedirectory
• hylau
• ian andrew remsen
• Ilya
• Ingmar K. Steen
• INMCM
• Inso-m-niaC
• Jackson Baber
• Jason Green
• Jean-Baptiste ALLAIN
• Jimmy
• J. Lavoie
• Joe Halliwell
• Jordan Rodrigues
• Jörn Weigend
• jose alberto matos
• Josep Anguera
• Josselin Mouette
• Jozef Říha
• JP Dillingham
• Juan Benites
• Julen
• Julian
• Julien Wajsberg
• Kari Viittanen
• Kawasumi Ayako
• Kenny Verstraete
• ketacat
• Kian-Meng Ang
• Kip Warner
• Kirill Feoktistov
• Kylie McClain
• lee8oi
• Lene Preuss
• Lev Gorodetskiy
• lippel
• Lucas Vieites
• m-balthazar
• Maite Guix
• mantas
• ManWell
• marciozomb13
• Mariusz
• Markus Magnuson
• Mat
• mathsped
• Matthaiks
• Maxime Leroy
• Mehavoid
• MELERIX
• MendelGusmao
• Meokater
• Michael Labouebe
• Micke Nilsson
• Miodrag Milić
• mitramai
• Mohamed El Morabity
• monowii
• Monsieur Poisson
• ms-afk
• Mutnick
• mzf-guest
• Nachtalb
• nicola
• Nicolas Abril
• Nick Voronin
• Nils
• nince78
• Nir Arbel
• nyoooooooooooooooom
• Offhand
• Oğuz Ersen
• Oleg Gritsun
• Oliver Hattshire
• osiris
• Pagal3
• Patrik
• phelissimo_
• phlostically
• Piotr Strebski
• Poesty Li
• PriitUring
• quinox
• redactedscribe
• rimasx
• Saumon
• SeeSchloss
• sierracat
• Sigrid Davis
• Silvio Orta
• Slendi
• slook
• slrslr
• spongy
• ssantos
• Ștefan Talpalaru
• stillbirth
• Strange
• subu_versus
• suser-guru
• systr
• Szia Tomi
• tagomago
• thine
• Timo Vanwynsberghe
• Toine Rademacher
• tsointsoin
• (va)*10^3
• vasi
• Vinícius Soares
• Vladimir Sedach
• Vladyslav Anisimov
• wanderer
• Wojciech Owczarek
• Wretched
• Wynfyd
• W L
• X Kowalsky
• Ys413
• yyyyyyyan
• zniavre
• ZTetriminos
• Žygimantas Beručka
• தமிழ்நேரம்

License

Nicotine+ is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later, with the following exceptions:

tinytag licensed under the MIT License.
Copyright (c) 2014-2025 Tom Wallroth, Mat (mathiascode), et al.
Copyright (c) 2020-2025 Nicotine+ Contributors

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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Copyright (c) 2016 Bowtie AB

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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