careware
{{Short description|Software licensed in a way that benefits a charity}}
Careware (also called charityware, helpware, or goodware) is software licensed in a way that benefits a charity. Some careware is distributed free, and the author suggests that some payment be made to either a nominated charity, or a charity of the user's choice. Commercial careware, on the other hand, includes a levy for charity on top of the distribution charge.{{FOLDOC|Careware}}{{cite web |url=http://charityware.info/wiki/what-is-a-charityware |title=What is a charityware? |publisher=charityware.info |accessdate=11 January 2010 |archive-date=21 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090821070031/http://charityware.info/wiki/what-is-a-charityware |url-status=dead }} Careware can also involve a barter of some kind, or even a pledge to be kind to strangers.
Overview
The term "charityware" was credited to Canadian developer Roedy Green in a 1988 issue of 2600 Magazine.{{cite journal |last1=Greenberg |first1=Ross |title=A Solution to Viruses |journal=2600 Magazine |date=1988 |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=4–7, 28–38 |url=https://archive.org/details/2600magazine/2600_5-2/page/n14/mode/1up |access-date=21 April 2022}} One of the first known uses of the term "careware" appeared in Dr. Dobb's Journal in Al Stevens' C Programming Column in about 1991. Stevens was developing a user interface library and publishing the source code in monthly installments. To distribute code to readers, Stevens suggested they send him an addressed stamped mailer with a blank diskette. He copied the code onto the diskette and returned it. He also suggested that to express their appreciation they include a dollar, which he would donate to the local food bank in Brevard County, Florida. Stevens named this distribution method "careware."{{cite web |url=http://www.ddj.com/architect/184408606 |work=Dr. Dobb's Journal |title=C Programming |date=1 August 1991 |accessdate=11 January 2010 |last=Stevens |first=Al}}
Paul Lutus's{{cite web
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}} careware idea involves no monetary exchange - instead it involves a request for the user to "stop complaining for a while and make the world a better place."{{cite web |url=http://www.arachnoid.com/careware/index.html |title=The CareWare Idea |date=18 October 1998 |accessdate=11 January 2010}} Date information retrieved from included metadata of Microsoft Word 7 version of the article.
For example, the vim text editor is free software but includes a request from its author, Bram Moolenaar, that users donate to ICCF Holland for work to help AIDS victims in Uganda. Vim's [http://www.vim.org/about.php Charityware license] has been declared by Richard Stallman to be GPL-compatible.{{cite web |url=http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/uganda.html#license |title=VIM license}} Another current example is MJ's CD Archiver, a file archiver for Microsoft Windows/Linux/Mac OS X. The suggested charity is NACEF, a US-registered charity for China's Project Hope.
A close variation of careware is donationware, which has a narrower definition than careware.
Examples
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