nonfree
adjEtymology
Definitions
Not free, not free of charge, that costs money, that must be paid for, that must be…
Not free, not free of charge, that costs money, that must be paid for, that must be purchased; paid (as in paid service); pay (as in pay channel); cash (as in cash bar); paywalled (as in paywalled content).
With copyright restrictions that prevent unrestricted distribution or reuse.
- Near-synonyms: closed-source, proprietary
- Furthermore, if software released under the GNU General Public Licence (GPL) were combined with proprietary (nonfree) code, the resultant combination had to be released under the GPL.
- However, if you have developed an application that requires MySQL for its functionality and you want to sell your software with MySQL under a nonfree license, you must purchase a commercial license from MySQL AB.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for nonfree. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA