Shareware

Freeware

Software that is copyrighted, but may be downloaded and used for a limited time for free, after which the user is asked to voluntarily send the author a small payment.Some shareware products offer additional features, documentation, technical support, and/or updates to registered users

Extracted from:

Copyrighted software given away for free by the author. Although it is available for free, the author retains the copyright, which means that you cannot do anything with it that is not expressly allowed by the author. Usually, the author allows people to use the software, but not sell it.  

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Examples:

Winzip8.0

Powerarchiver5.6

Download websites: http://www.winzip.com

http://www.powerarchiver.com

Extracts:

WinZip License

Evaluation Version

WinZip Computing, Inc.

This is not free software.  Subject to the terms below, you are hereby licensed by WinZip Computing, Inc. ("WCI") to use this software for evaluation purposes without charge for a period of 21 days.  If you use this software after the 21 day evaluation period a registration fee of $29 is required.  Payments must be in US dollars drawn on a US bank, and should be sent to WinZip Computing, Inc., P.O. Box 540, Mansfield, CT 06268, USA.  

PowerArchiver 2000 Version 5.6

Copyright(c) 2000 eFront, Inc.

All Rights Reserved

POWERARCHIVER END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT

Use of PowerArchiver (hereinafter 'SOFTWARE') is contingent on youragreement to the following terms:

***** GRANT OF LICENSE *****

The author grants you a limited non-exclusive license to use the SOFTWARE free of charge for ANY purpose, commercial or private, without restriction.