The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):
guiltware
/gilt'weir/, n.
1. A piece of freeware decorated with a message telling one how long and
hard the author worked on it and intimating that one is a no-good
freeloader if one does not immediately send the poor suffering martyr gobs
of money.
2. A piece of shareware that works.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
guiltware
/gilt'weir/ 1. A piece of freeware decorated with a message
telling one how long and hard the author worked on it and
intimating that one is a no-good freeloader if one does not
immediately send the poor suffering martyr gobs of money.
2. Shareware that works.
[Jargon File]