Word.ws English Dictionary

freedomware

freedomware noun: free software (with source code available), distinguished from freeware.

Noun

freedomware (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Free software (with source code available), distinguished from freeware.
    • […] And last of the “open software”, a rarer implementation is sourceware. A variation of freedomware, sourceware offers “open source” code with “closed (proprietary) standards”.2005, Sys Admin: The Journal for UNIX System Administrators, page 48

Origin of freedomware

From freedom + -ware.

Questions about freedomware

What does freedomware mean?
Freedomware means free software (with source code available), distinguished from freeware.
What part of speech is freedomware?
Freedomware is a noun.

Words near freedomware in the dictionary

  1. freedomless
  2. freedomlessness
  3. freedoms
  4. freedoms of the air
  5. freedoms of trade
  6. freedomware
  7. Freedonia
  8. Freedonian
  9. Freedonians
  10. freedpeople
  11. freedperson

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: freedomware (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-freedomware.wav.

Cite this entry: “freedomware.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/freedomware. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.