Editing Shareware (section)

=== Postcardware ===
Postcardware, also called just cardware, is a style of software distribution similar to shareware, distributed by the author on the condition that users send the author a [[postcard]]. A variation of cardware, emailware, uses the same approach but requires the user to send the author an [[email]]. Postcardware, like other novelty software distribution terms, is often not strictly enforced. Cardware is similar to [[beerware]].

The concept was first used by [[Aaron Giles]], author of [[JPEGView]].<ref name="history">{{cite web |url=http://aarongiles.com/history/index.html |title=Aaron's Computing History |access-date=2006-08-07 |last=Giles |first=Aaron |author-link=Aaron Giles |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316204036/http://www.aarongiles.com/history/index.html |archive-date=2012-03-16 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Another well-known piece of postcardware is the [[roguelike]] game ''[[Ancient Domains of Mystery]]'', whose author collects postcards from around the world. [[Orbitron (software)|Orbitron]] is distributed as postcardware. [[Exifer]] is a popular application among [[digital photography|digital photographers]] that has been postcardware.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Exifer for Windows|url = http://www.friedemann-schmidt.com/software/exifer/|website = www.friedemann-schmidt.com|access-date = 2016-01-18|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061112003949/http://www.friedemann-schmidt.com/software/exifer/|archive-date = 2006-11-12|url-status = dead}}</ref> Caledos Automatic Wallpaper Changer is a "still alive" project cardware. "Empathy" is a postcardware for password-protected executables. [[Dual Module Player]] and [[Linux kernel|Linux]] were also postcardware for a long time.<ref>{{cite book|last=Torvalds|first=Linus|author-link=Linus Torvalds|title=Just for Fun|date=May 2001|publisher=HarperCollins Publishers|location=New York|isbn=0-06-662072-4|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/justforfun00linu}}</ref> An example for emailware is the [[video game]] ''[[Jump 'n Bump]]''.<ref>[http://brainchilddesign.com/Bottom.php?Page=Games&SubPage=JnB Jump 'n Bump] ({{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222075555/http://brainchilddesign.com/Bottom.php?Page=Games&SubPage=JnB |date=2015-12-22 }}). readme.txt: "JUMP 'N BUMP by Brainchild Design in 1998 Jump 'n Bump is e-mailware. That means you're supposed to send us an e-mail. Write for example where you're from and what you thought about this game. If you do that, you will greatly encourage us to make more games for you!"</ref> Another popular postcardware company is the Laravel package developers from Spatie, which has released over 200 open-source packages to the [[Laravel|Laravel framework]], which are postcardware licensed, and all shown at their website.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://spatie.be/open-source/postcards | title=Postcards }}</ref>