Editing Donationware (section)

{{short description|Licensing model}}
'''Donationware''' is a licensing model that supplies fully operational unrestricted software to the user and requests an optional donation be paid to the programmer or a third-party beneficiary (usually a [[non-profit]]).<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/06/13/subscription.donations/|title=Reading apps sell subscriptions to fuzzy feelings|last=Milian|first=Mark|work=[[CNN]]|date=2011-06-13|access-date=2014-05-22}}</ref> The amount of the donation may also be stipulated by the author, or it may be left to the discretion of the user, based on individual perceptions of the software's value. Since donationware comes fully operational (i.e. not [[crippleware]]/[[freemium]]) when payment is optional, it is a type of [[freeware]].