

If the software is useless without the peripheral, it’s considered a driver. Driver: Software to make a hardware peripheral recognisable and usable by the system.Font: Data file containing a set of glyphs, characters, or symbols, that changes typed text.Walled: When the download URL is both behind a login/registration form and from a host that differs from the homepage.Vendorless: A binary distributed without an official website, like a forum posting.Unofficial: An allegedly unmodified compiled binary, by a third-party, of a binary that has no existing build by the owner of the source code.

Fork: An alternate version of an existing project, with a based-on but modified source and binary.Freemium: Gratis version that works indefinitely but with limitations that can be removed by paying.Trial: Time-limited version that stops working entirely after it expires, requiring payment to lift the limitation.Regional, Localized: Any version that isn’t the US English one, when that exists.

