Donationware is not allowed

Good choice.

Updated Policy

Donationware is still not allowed. However, we allow demo versions of payware to be uploaded, as long as it meets our requirements and it's still entirely free.

What is donationware?

Ok thanks

Quote from R1NS3

Donationware is officially defined as: "a licensing model that supplies fully operational unrestricted software to the user and requests an optional donation be paid to the programmer or a third-party beneficiary". We are referring to addons that (partially) lock features behind a donation such as only including a section of the scenery for free or only providing support (updates) when a user donates.

So if an addon is a free full version that does not have any locked or partially locked features, then they are allowed? I hope so because if a free addon is good enough to attract donations in the first place, then that would encourage the creation of more top quality freeware.

Quote from YMA555

So if an addon is a free full version that does not have any locked or partially locked features, then they are allowed? I hope so because if a free addon is good enough to attract donations in the first place, then that would encourage the creation of more top quality freeware.

Yep that is allowed, if its a full free version

Quote from R1NS3

As trille12321 pointed out, that is indeed allowed. A free version would also be allowed if it's a demo for a payware version that can be found on a trusted storefront (i.e. simMarket). As long as the free version isn't excluding content from a version for which you have to donate, it is allowed.

If the only feature that separates the freeware with the paid version is time limit , am i allowed to upload it?

Then that's a demo for payware, not freeware. So I doubt it.

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Then that's a demo for payware, not freeware. So I doubt it.

But see the post before mine. It says:

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A free version would also be allowed if it's a demo for a payware version that can be found on a trusted storefront (i.e. simMarket). As long as the free version isn't excluding content from a version for which you have to donate, it is allowed.

Ok, you got me. That's a strange policy though. 'A demo is allowed as long as it's not a demo'.

In my opinion putting a time constraint on a mod to make you buy the full version is worse than locking features to make you buy the full version.

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Ok, you got me. That's a strange policy though. 'A demo is allowed as long as it's not a demo'.

In my opinion putting a time constraint on a mod to make you buy the full version is worse than locking features to make you buy the full version.

Maybe so...and for sure not for a site like flightsim.to. In my case its more convenient to have a time limit than restrict features.

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Ok, you got me. That's a strange policy though. 'A demo is allowed as long as it's not a demo'.

In my opinion putting a time constraint on a mod to make you buy the full version is worse than locking features to make you buy the full version.

Semantics. You're thinking of a demo version being a part of a bigger package. Right. But a demo can be a whole package which has a time limit on it.

My understanding is that this site has decided that the time-limit demo is fine, whereas the feature limited version isn't.

Think of the demo version here being like a car test drive. You get to try out all the features, but you don't get to keep the car unless you pay for it. The feature limited demo is more like someone delivering a TV to you that can only tune to PBS until you buy a decoder to get to the other channels.

Quote from R1NS3

Donationware is officially defined as: "a licensing model that supplies fully operational unrestricted software to the user and requests an optional donation be paid to the programmer or a third-party beneficiary". We are referring to addons that (partially) lock features behind a donation such as only including a section of the scenery for free or only providing support (updates) when a user donates.

You mean such as

https://flightsim.to/file/10350/aerosoft-crj-700-blank

which provides a blank model, but demands that you purchase the model from xyz if you want to see liveries on it?

Then if that's the policy, this is one that needs to be pulled! Again, just my 2c.

This post is about donationware not demos of payware so maybe has gone a tad off track? Personally I have never seen any donationware that related to demos of payware either time restricted or feature restricted. I think the two issues are unrelated and combining them in this thread is confusing. So I go back to my original comment that if an addon is a free full version that does not have any locked or partially locked features, then a request (NOT a requirement) for a donation is acceptable and reasonable.

How the moderators handle payware or payware demos restricted or otherwise is another matter; after all the website has to pay for itself somehow.

Quote from R1NS3

As trille12321 pointed out, that is indeed allowed. A free version would also be allowed if it's a demo for a payware version that can be found on a trusted storefront (i.e. simMarket). As long as the free version isn't excluding content from a version for which you have to donate, it is allowed.

And that would appear to embrace the issue of the crj-700!

Then the description is highly misleading. It says nothing about being a texture blank, and the images actually suggest a white plane on the ground, and in the air.