That's just the definition of the user(s) who wrote this particulary
entry and not any kind of official definition of the term "freeware"...
Note that there is no kind of freeware which simply is freeware in the
wikipedia definition.
Let's take an example, Partition Saving is a freeware program most of
us know about. Or the Opera browser.
What type of freeware is it? Is it nagware, loss leader, adware,
donationware, etc..
Look at the types section in the wikipedia article and choose..
It doesn't fit into any of the types.
There is no neutral and good freeware, according to wikipedia.
I have tried to change the article to something more neutral, see the
discussion page, but the open source advocates have stopped every
attempt from me and others to write a better article, because they do
not want freeware to be seen as something positive at all. All freeware
is evil and nasty in their minds, unless it is open source, but then it
is not called freeware.
We who use and like freeware ought to try to make the article better,
but I fear we have no chance against the open source fanatics who have
mangled this article into something totally misleading.