The term "Freeware" refers to the software you don't need to pay for it.
For example Free Software is at the same time "Freeware", like "Evolution", "aMule"... But this generally causes confusion, because although Free Software is "Freeware", "Freeware" is not always Free Software. Free Software specifies that the user is free to use the program as he wants, to share it, to modify it and to study it, even to redistribute modified copies of the program, "Freeware" only refers to the economic aspect, so it's not always Free Software, for example, "Windows Live Messenger" is "Freeware", but completely closed. Think as "Freeware" as free beer, and "Free Software" as free speech. Free Software has in count the ethics and human rights. So, if in the licenses appears as "Freeware" the most probably is that it's not Free Software. El dl 11 de 01 de 2010 a les 22:20 +0100, en/na [email protected] va escriure: > I have been looking at a variety of different plug-ins that are available for > > IceCat and I am seeing the term freeware come up often is the license for the > > software. I had done some research into Free Software Licenses here > > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html > > and here > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FSF_approved_software_licences > > They describe many Free Software Licenses, even covering how public domain is > > counted, but I still don't see anything about freeware. > > Could someone please help explain. > > Thank GNU. > _______________________________________________ > Trisquel-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://listas.trisquel.info/mailman/listinfo/trisquel-users _______________________________________________ Trisquel-users mailing list [email protected] http://listas.trisquel.info/mailman/listinfo/trisquel-users
