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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. It can also be a barter of some kind, or even a pledge to be kind to strangers. The concept of careware and the first known use of the term itself appeared in Dr. Dobb's Journal in Al Stevens' C Programming Column in about 1988. 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." Paul Lutus'〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title = Paul Lutus )〕 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." 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The CareWare Idea ) 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 (Charityware license ) has been declared by Richard Stallman to be GPL-compatible. 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 stricter definition than careware. ==Examples of careware== ;Non-commercial examples *Arachnophilia *FireFTP *KiXtart *Peazip *Vim (text editor) *Windows Live Messenger (through "i’m" initiative) ;Commercial *Product Red 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「careware」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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