careware
A variety of shareware for which either the author suggests that some payment be made to a nominated charity or a levy directed to charity is included on top of the distribution charge. Syn.: charityware; compare crippleware, sense 2.
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A variety of shareware for which either the author suggests that some payment be made to a nominated charity or a levy directed to charity is included on top of the distribution charge. Syn.: charityware; compare crippleware, sense 2.
Careware (or charityware, helpware, goodware) is
The concept of careware and the first known use of the term itself appeared in
For example, the
One more example of careware is the card game of concentration [2] where the author simply asks that if you plan to keep and/or use the program that you donate $5 to someone much less fortunate than yourself.
A close variation of careware is donateware, which has a stricter definition than careware.
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