freedomware en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (US) audio
Etymology
From freedom + -ware.
Meanings
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(rare, uncountable) Free software (with source code available), distinguished from freeware.
[…] And last of the “open software”, a rarer implementation is sourceware. A variation of freedomware, sourceware offers “open source” code with “closed (proprietary) standards”.
2005, Sys Admin: The Journal for UNIX System Administrators, page 48:
Relateds
libre · free as in freedom · free as in speech · copyleft · free as in beer