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title: "Freeware v/s Shareware"  
description: "Freeware v/s Shareware"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2018-07-18  
updated: 2018-07-18  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/34623/freeware-v-s-shareware  
category: "windows services"  
tags: ["web services", "windows services"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Freeware v/s Shareware

what is the [difference](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/157114/good-news-or-bad-news-and-the-difference-is) between Freeware v/s Shareware ?

## Replies

### Reply by Prakash nidhi Verma

Freeware: \

- it for free by download through the internet

- Free of cost

- Not allowed covered all the copyrights

- Usually

- All the copyright laws are retained. User License EULA(End User License Agreement)

- All features are freely available

- Free of cost distributed among the people

- Having no time limit

- A free copyrighted software

- Neither can sell these software nor can make any changes

- MSN messenger, yahoo messenger, Adobe PDF,etc

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Shareware:

- It allows the people to try before they buy

- Free for specific period of time later on asked the user to purchase

- Not allowed covered all the copyrights

- provided a free trail than pay

- Here also copyrights holders holds all the rights

- May or may not be freely distributed usually requires author's permission

- Program may only 30 days work duration

- Some features are free for trial and covered by copyright

- It cannot be modified and it may be either a cut down or a temporary version

- Winzip,CuteFTP,Getright,etc


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