What is the definition of “freeware” and “open source” for the purposes of the special binary-only license?
In order to qualify for the discounted binary-only license, the software to be deployed must be either “freeware” or “open source”. Software is considered to be freeware if it is available free of charge, and it has full, unchanged functionality regardless of whether payment is made. Most software that is labelled as “shareware”, “nagware”, “donationware” or “commercial” does not satisfy this requirement. Software which displays a reminder dialog asking for payments, even if it claims to be “free”, is not considered to be freeware for the purposes of licensing Install, because the reminder dialog qualifies as changed functionality (those who donate don’t see the dialog, those who don’t donate do). If you are in any doubt about whether your software would qualify, please contact Wincent. Software is considered to be “open source” if it is licensed under one of the approved licenses, the GNU GPL, GNU LGPL or the BSD license.
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