About Shareware.eu & Legal Notice

Welcome to the Shareware.eu freeware and shareware downloads site!

Shareware.eu is one of the the most comprehensive and useful resources on the Web for MS Windows™ software. The site is a trusted source of information for buyers and sellers of try-before-you-buy software, enabling IS/IT professionals, developers, business users, and personal technology enthusiasts to have a hands-on evaluation of products they are considering for purchase. Containing thousands software titles, Shareware.eu is an established and active marketplace for digital content distribution.

Shareware.eu does not contain the software files themselves but provides downloads from authors' web sites. Every day dozens of new and updated programs are submitted to our web site and appeared on it after approval. The submission is absolutely free. All the listings are correctly arranged in 14 categories and more than 150 subcategories which are consistent with PAD 2.0 specification that makes both the submission process and the search of needed software by category fast and easy. Also you can search software products by name, company, keywords etc. using our search engine, sort the listings by release date, title, popularity etc.

What is Shareware?

The term shareware, popularized by Bob Wallace,[1] refers to proprietary software that is provided to users without payment on a trial basis and is often limited by any combination of functionality, availability or convenience. Shareware is often offered as a download from an Internet website or as a compact disc included with a periodical such as a newspaper or magazine. The aim of shareware is to give buyers the opportunity to use the program and judge its usefulness before purchasing a license for the full version of the software.

Shareware is usually offered as a trial version with certain features only available after the license is purchased, or as a full version, but for a trial period. Once the trial period has passed the program may stop running until a license is purchased. Shareware is often offered without support, updates, or help menus, which only become available with the purchase of a license. The words "free trial" or "trial version" are indicative of shareware.

The term shareware is used in contrast to retail software, which refers to commercial software available only with the purchase of a license which may not be copied for others, public domain software, which refers to software not copyright protected, and freeware, which refers to copyrighted software for which the author solicits no payment (though he or she may request donations).

Legal Notice

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Registered Office of the general partner:
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Purchase tax identification number: DE266081261

Responsible for content according to §10 Absatz 3 MDStV:
Uwe Braun (address see above)