Careware

Careware (or Charityware, Helpware, Good goods) is software that is licensed so that the distribution is for a good purpose.

Careware is often distributed for free, the author asks the user to donate money for a good cause. For example, the text editor Vim free software. The author Bram Moolenaar asks the user, however, to donate money to the organization " ICCF Holland", which thus helps AIDS orphans in Uganda. Commercial Careware in the purchase price a donation for a good cause is included.

The software author Paul Lutus meant by his notion of Careware no financial exchange, but the prompt that users of its editor Arachnophilia to live more conscious and positive for a small period.