shareware

License model for proprietary software

Also known as trialware · demoware

Instance of: software license
, license
Subclass of: proprietary software
, application software
, commercial software

Overview

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Shareware is proprietary software that is initially shared by the owner for trial use at little or no cost. Often the software has limited functionality or incomplete documentation until the user sends payment to the owner. Shareware is often offered as a download from a website. Shareware differs from freeware, which is fully-featured software distributed at no cost to the user but without source code being made available; and free and open-source software, in which the source code is freely available for anyone to inspect and alter.

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24 statements · 29% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Product or material produced: software
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1.Stated in National Software Reference Library
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18 identifiers linking shareware across the web's reference databases

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statements

29%

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