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Sockerdrickan
April 16th, 2008, 05:54 PM
What's an open source pay ware software called?

Zeotronic
April 16th, 2008, 05:59 PM
Would you mean proprietary software which comes with its source code? I would call it 'proprietary sofware which comes with its source code'.

Sockerdrickan
April 16th, 2008, 06:04 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary_software
"Similar terms include "closed-source software" and "non-free software"."

It's not closed source I'm after, I mean if you can redistrubute the code anyhow you want but not the rest.

gn2
April 16th, 2008, 06:04 PM
What's an open source pay ware software called?

Fool's gold.

koenn
April 16th, 2008, 08:46 PM
it would be called open source software.

whether you have to pay for it or not, is urrelevant.
http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php

Same goes for free software
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

Sockerdrickan
April 16th, 2008, 08:49 PM
That's what I thought, thanks!