What is Shareware?
(n.) Software distributed on the basis of an honor system. Most shareware is delivered free of charge, but the author usually requests that you pay a small fee if you like the program and use it regularly. By sending the small fee, you become registered with the producer so that you can receive service assistance and updates. You can copy shareware and pass it along to friends and colleagues, but they too are expected to pay a fee if they use the product.
according to this. it says that shareware can be redistributed. now my concern is when people package mirc with their scripts. is it really an infringment of the TOS "Terms of Serivce"?? as long as the copy of mirc still asks the party who uses the package to pay?
