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Opensource vs Freeware - What's the difference?

opensource | freeware |


As an adjective opensource

is .

As a noun freeware is

(computing) complete and functional software that does not require payment or other compensation (such as nags or advertising) for its use freeware may be a proprietary license with no access to the source code.