Donationware: you must donate to use it. Not like regular optional donates.
Where the fuck did you get this definition from?
If I remember correctly vim is charityware and is entirely free, I only found out about the charity part on accident.
Yeahhh… I paid for it because I needed the functionality.
I agree this is bullshit, especially the donation for activation code.
Thats just paid sortware with extra name
Well yeah, I don’t really see the problem with that though.
Who needs to get definitions from other sources when you can make your own definitions?
Randsomeware
You must pay to use your own software
There is also software that you could compile from source yourself but the binaries are locked behind a donation. Are those also donationware?
Theres also software you can download for free, but you gotta pay for the password to unlock the rar file…
pls answer I need to know if I can use aseprite without disappointing daddy stallman
Paid software is completely fine with RMS as long as the source is available to the users (not even to everyone) as long as you can freely redistribute the source (like RHEL before they enshittified)
One of my favorite programs was acting up, so I went to reinstall. Turned out this program that has been free for a decade, now wants $29 a month, to let me pirate movies. Da fuck? What a way to shit the bed, to offer the same free program but charge for it out of nowhere
Stremio
If anyone actually pays $29 a month to watch movies illegally modern streaming services have truly reached a new low
Yeah it’s was bittorrent. they went with a paid, tiered model now. They want me to pay to use a torrent client to pirate stuff, it’s ridiculous
… Use a better torrent client. Like qbittorrent or transmission.
If you were using uTorrent, it stopped being safe a long time ago.
I had no idea as I’ve been using it for years and it was just there. I switched to q
I mean, that’s cheaper than having three or four subscriptions to cover at least the basic catalog.
now whatever you do, don’t steal it
also doublecheck you aren’t on a scam site or that the product hasn’t forked ;)
I dunno this lacks nuance… I think this could easily be referring to different economic situations. The concept of donation usually has this implication of not being a for-profit entity or for a indie developer’s side project. These kinds of apps usually are still either open source or source available which is different than closed, proprietary applications. With this focus on money, I would assume that “free” is meaning gratis where users can often be the product & while the source is not available …or some VC-funded product where they are loss-leading a free tier now just eventually charge everyone later which is hardly good, with a dash of open washing to taste.
Free beer: dont pay and still get software
Free speech: get software you can trust, be sure there are no active backdoors etc.
Gratis vs. Libre
You can literally donate 1ct. I have no idea how people can complain when developers want money for their work.
The “Linux community” is 80% users that dont contribute, 10% “powerusers” that still dont contribute, 5% people that help with nondevelopment work (bug reporting, community support, etc.) and 5% actual developers.
(Completely rough estimation)
I have no problem with “pay what you can”. I just hate “you must donate X amount to use this software”. If I need to donate, then it is not a donate. It is payment.
Never had this but yeah maybe. “Pay for binaries” is still free software though
In English, the correct meaning of words is always optional. The language is fluid, literally anything can be a euphemism; idk if that’s also the case in other languages but it regularly trips up even native speakers.
Even so, even with that much flexibility built into the language, this is still just malignant, cynical, toxic lying of the worst sort.
What like itch.io? Hard disagree
Itch is free, with optional donations.
Donationware is “Please donate to continue”
You can set a donation minimum in itch
Donationware is “Please donate to continue”
No, that’s either Freemium or Trialware.
I think they’re referring to software that has like donate indicators/prompts in the app, or features blocked behind “donation.”
yes, those.
donate indicators/prompts in the app
That’s either donationware or nagware depending.
features blocked behind “donation.”
That’s just Freemium.
I think pay what you can/want is a great concept, but calling it donation is kinda misleading
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For it to be donationware, you must not be able to use it without donating.
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It’s charityware.
See
:help iccf
English people on their way to ruin the meaning of every word.
Now what about software that pays you to use it?
Oh no, I just described cryptocurrency.
And bloatware. (Kind of. I understand it subsidises the cost of your device/software.)
Any real-life example of anyone doing this?
Screenskraper but they have to pay server costs so it makes sense.
OCCT for some fucking reason, where it doesn’t.
OCCT doesn’t require you to purchase it for personal use (although you will get a 10sec timer before you can start a benchmark/stability test), which is why i think it doesn’t count as “donationware”
Maybe nagware would be a better label. Like winrar.
Not sure if it would count. But https://fritzing.org/download/ Went to pay it or ?compile it yourself? with version 1.0.
Mynoise.com allows you to do a 1 time donation of 1$ to unlock all the sounds. You then just need the email you donated with.
So… Freemium/Paidware.
Voicemeeter did that too.
But honestly i don’t really see what’s wrong. There’s a base donation for the price of the software but it just give the option to support the dev if you want…
I mean most things that rely on donation like that are just cheap indie software (I think voicemeeter was $5)
I’d take that over the awful and greedy subscriptions that cost an arm like adobe or Microsoft.
It’s free software. You can charge money for distribution of free software but if the user does then he has the right to have acces to the source code forever no restrictions. And that user is free to distribute copies of the software as he wishes.
You can charge money for distribution of free software
That copy is Paidware.
but if the user does then he has the right to have acces to the source code forever no restrictions
No. FOSS licenses provide protections/rights over the source code to the user regardless if that user paid for it/a pre-compiled binary or not.
Even in a scenario where the source isrestricted-access FOSSthe license still grants those protections without exception. Moreover a restricted-access FOSS model goes against the very nature of FOSS, even if it’s not explicitly forbidden by the license. This kind of model is typically referred to as commercial open-source software (COSS).
This approach is essentially commercial proprietary software but they messed up by picking the wrong license.You can change for software distribution (binaries).Directly from gpl site…:
Does the GPL allow me to sell copies of the program for money? (#DoesTheGPLAllowMoney)
Yes, the GPL allows everyone to do this. The right to sell copies is part of the definition of free software. Except in one special situation, there is no limit on what price you can charge. (The one exception is the required written offer to provide source code that must accompany binary-only release.)
Does the GPL allow me to charge a fee for downloading the program from my distribution site? (#DoesTheGPLAllowDownloadFee)
Yes. You can charge any fee you wish for distributing a copy of the program. Under GPLv2, if you distribute binaries by download, you must provide “equivalent access” to download the source—therefore, the fee to download source may not be greater than the fee to download the binary. If the binaries being distributed are licensed under the GPLv3, then you must offer equivalent access to the source code in the same way through the same place at no further charge.
Please speak with a lawyer.
That specific sold binary copy is by definition paidware regardless of source code distribution as there’s a paywall preventing you from accessing that specific distribution of that specific copy.As for the rest :
Directly from same gpl site.
Does the GPL allow me to require that anyone who receives the software must pay me a fee and/or notify me? (#DoesTheGPLAllowRequireFee)No. In fact, a requirement like that would make the program nonfree. If people have to pay when they get a copy of a program, or if they have to notify anyone in particular, then the program is not free. See the definition of free software.
The GPL is a free software license, and therefore it permits people to use and even redistribute the software without being required to pay anyone a fee for doing so.
You can charge people a fee to get a copy from you. You can’t require people to pay you when they get a copy from someone else.
If I distribute GPLed software for a fee, am I required to also make it available to the public without a charge? (#DoesTheGPLRequireAvailabilityToPublic)
No. However, if someone pays your fee and gets a copy, the GPL gives them the freedom to release it to the public, with or without a fee. For example, someone could pay your fee, and then put her copy on a web site for the general public.
Does the GPL allow me to distribute copies under a nondisclosure agreement? (#DoesTheGPLAllowNDA)
No. The GPL says that anyone who receives a copy from you has the right to redistribute copies, modified or not. You are not allowed to distribute the work on any more restrictive basis.
If someone asks you to sign an NDA for receiving GPL-covered software copyrighted by the FSF, please inform us immediately by writing to license-violation@fsf.org.
If the violation involves GPL-covered code that has some other copyright holder, please inform that copyright holder, just as you would for any other kind of violation of the GPL.
That’s the same I’m saying. What you quoted just says that you can charge for distributing free software but you cannot force other holders of the software to distribute it asking for a charge.
You as a distributor can charge for what you distribute, that’s it. And it has been done with a lot of free software, like with Linux. That’s why basically Linus changed his License from explicitly free in money to only free as in freedom.
The thing is that free software allows to have a paywall if the distributor wants it. Which has a lot of sense. But does not allow to enforce it to other distributors.
Richard Stallman distributed GNU tools by a price. HIS distribution of GNU tools. At the same time you can also get the GNU tools from idk Debian mirrors (for free).
Free software isn’t free as in money. That’s the whole point. The adoption of Open Source by the “cool” companies (Google, Facebook, Apple, etc.) has tainted the original meaning of free software.
Did you even read my first reply?
It wasn’t about wether or not you can charge. It was about the protections always being granted to the user regardless if they paid the fee. A user could “steal” a copy without paying a fee and still be able to legally distribute it, you wouldn’t even be able to press charges for “theft” because the license grants rights regardless of the means it was accessed.Also it’s FOSS, not “free software”, they’re not the same thing. Free software could be any software that doesn’t cost money, FOSS is Free(-dom) Open Source Software.
So would that mean that torrenting parted magic is legal?
Yes? You can also torrent your favourite Linux distros. Torrenting is not illegal; distributing pirated content is
My bad, got it mixed up with gPartEd
If the source code is free software you are free to share it if you have a copy of it.
Maybe it’s regional, but the webpage doesn’t say anything about a donation. It uses language like “store,” “purchase” and “subscription.”
I think FreeFileSync does make some additional features available when you donate, which I don’t think would otherwise be available.
afwall+
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FairEmail is a privacy oriented email app on fdroid which uses donation to activate pro features. €0.10 to activate one time and €7.50 for unlimited future devices. I think it’s a pretty fair deal.
https://email.faircode.eu/donate/It’s a fair deal, but the point is it’s not a donation. You can purchase pro features, and that’s great. But it’s not a donation if you get a product in return, that’s just a purchase.
You can use it for free, you just need to donate to get rid of the banner and to get all features.
The bare functionality is in fact free
That’s not a donation, that’s just a purchase
Not if it has all the essential features, it has no 3rd party ads, tracking and is a privacy focused mail client.
I only bought i because i could test it for months and saw everything works and it being updated and well maintained, it’s kinda pricey for a mail client.
There are for sure nagging experiences in other programs, Fairmail is not one of them.
You’re paying them for something. That’s a purchase, not a donation.
I’m not disputing that. I’m just finding it silly to call purchases donations.
And op asked for real life examples and that is what this person is answering to
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I paid for “premium” boost fpr lemmy and it was 100% worth it. I didn’t had too but having lemmy on boost made me forget about reddit.
Boost is
Freemiumsoftware.That last sentence is so fucked you should get legal consequences. You couldn’t have made it much worse if you consciously tried to fuck up as much as possible. And the whole comment itself is deeply stupid.
