Susan Bugher said:
Okay. Permission to change what I said? <g>
You made me realize that ACF voters would be most unlikely to have any
serious arguments if it were a PL nomination. I seem to have slipped into
intermixing reality in with my own little Plato world. (In the latter,
only the most absolutely freeware, the very purest freeware, would qualify
for PL.)
Free/Shareware
http://www.outertech.com/index.php?_charisma_page=product&id=2
1. Private/Educational user
The registration fee for Cacheman is $10. Since most users cannot afford
$10, Cacheman has no disabled features and no time limit. If you really
cannot afford the shareware fee you are allowed to use Cacheman as Freeware.
I've noticed that one before, and it has made me stop and wonder.
I mean, consider how freeware is a choice for many reasons. Then, even
when the reasons -are- financial, it can be that someone is a cheapskate,
or they have other financial priorities, or whatever, and often not a
matter of their income/assets.
So on first read, this program is "freeware" merely for a strict subset
of the population.
Then further complication is determining what subset. That, since "cannot
afford" is very subjective. (I've known many folks, especially those with
Depression-era background, whose assets, with house, put them past the
million dollar range -- yet when you try to get them to purchase a printer
or something, they start declaring, with emotive sincerity, that they
"cannot afford it." Some of those folks, even for things like it being their
turn to drop a couple of quarters in the parking meter, they balk. <g> )
Eeeeeh. I'm feeling inclined to put Cacheman back out of my consciousness.
Pack up and head for the Plato retreat in the magik forest...
[...]
The license [*] indicates that there exists an independent product,
shareware, requiring registration; and that this release does not.
Makes it fit in as a liteware.
Agree
On the other hand, its use is only permitted for a finite length of
time. Or, finite but significantly finite? Since it might be that my
idea of a "reasonable period of time" for assessing whether I like it,
that might well be a lifetime or more.
Yup - unlimited trial.
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[*] License.txt excerpt from Access Folders 1.5
| 2. Permitted Uses and Restrictions.
|
| This License allows you to install and use the unregistered
| version of Software for a reasonable period of time for the
| purpose of determining whether Software is suitable for your
| needs. The use of full version of Software requires registration.
| [...]
| A limited license is granted to all registered and unregistered
| users, webmasters, owners of distribution systems, BBS etc to copy
| and distribute unregistered Software only for the trial use of others.
| [...]
Looks like Liteware to me.
Okay, that conclusion looks good. A conclusion after thinking about the prog
in conjunction with that license.txt.
As well as without that license.txt. The download in question is a special
edition, a "registered version," which then arguably has licensing
independent of that license.txt.
Both ways, it does indeed seem to land solidly enough on "this side of
freeware." A special liteware distribution. No registration expected, no
nags, no ads, and free for use without any specifically-defined time limit.
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