freeware

3 definitions found

freeware - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  freeware
      n 1: software that is provided without charge

freeware - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  freeware
  
     <legal> Software, often written by enthusiasts and
     distributed at no charge by users' groups, or via the
     World-Wide Web, electronic mail, bulletin boards,
     Usenet, or other electronic media.
  
     At one time, "freeware" was a trademark of Andrew Fluegelman
     .  It wasn't enforced after his death.
  
     "Freeware" should not be confused with "free software"
     (roughly, software with unrestricted redistribution) or
     "shareware" (software distributed without charge for which
     users can pay voluntarily).
  
     Jim Knopf's story (http://freewarehof.org/sstory.html).
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (2003-07-26)
  

freeware - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  freeware
   n.
  
     [common] Freely-redistributable software, often written by
  enthusiasts
     and distributed by users' groups, or via electronic mail, local
     bulletin boards, Usenet, or other electronic media. As the culture
     of the Internet has displaced the older BBS world, this term has lost
     ground to both open source and free software; it has increasingly
     tended to be restricted to software distributed in binary rather than
     source-code form. At one time, freeware was a trademark of Andrew
     Fluegelman, the author of the well-known MS-DOS comm program PC-TALK
     III. It wasn't enforced after his mysterious disappearance and
     presumed death in 1984. See shareware, FRS.