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In 2020 a version of Miranda was released as open source under a [[BSD 2-Clause|BSD licence]]. The code has been updated to conform to modern C standards ([[C11 (C standard revision)|C11]]/[[C18 (C standard revision)|C18]]) and to generate 64-bit binaries. This has been tested on operating systems including [[Debian]], [[Ubuntu]], [[Windows Subsystem for Linux|WSL]]/Ubuntu, and [[macOS]] ([[macOS Catalina|Catalina]]).<ref name=opensourcing>{{Cite web|last=Turner|first=David|date=2021-03-22|title=Open Sourcing Miranda|url=http://codesync.global/media/open-sourcing-miranda-david-turner-code-mesh-v-2020-codemeshv2020/|access-date=2021-12-30|website=Code Sync|language=en|publication-place=London|publication-date=November 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Miranda download page|url=https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/downloads/|access-date=2021-12-30|website=www.cs.kent.ac.uk}}</ref>
== Name ==
[[File:Miranda - The Tempest JWW.jpg|thumb|right|''Miranda'' by John William Waterhouse, 1917]]
The name ''Miranda'' is taken from the gerundive form of the latin verb {{lang|la|[[:wikt:miror|miror]]}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/name.html|title=About the name Miranda|access-date=2024-05-18}}</ref>
The logo features a rendition by [[John William Waterhouse]] of the character [[Miranda (The Tempest)|Miranda]] from Shakespeare's ''The Tempest''.
== Overview ==
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