“Non-proprietary Licensing Creates New E-commerce
Standard.“
“OpenSales, Inc., the emerging leader in e-commerce solutions,
today announced the free availability of the source code to its
OpenMerchantTM online retailing solution. In keeping
with the successful model of rapid development found in Linux and
other Open Source technologies, OpenSales will encourage
developers, Internet service providers (ISPs) and system
integrators to use and modify the code–and then return their
modifications to the company’s development portal,
www.opensales.org.”
“To ensure developers that OpenMerchant can be shared and
modified without becoming a proprietary and closed system, the
software has been licensed under the terms of the GNU Public
License (GPL), a defining legal document of the Open Source
movement. According to Rob Ferber, Chief Technical Officer of
OpenSales and founding technologist of the highly successful eToys
portal, releasing OpenMerchant under this licensing arrangement
will have a tremendous impact upon both businesses and the
development community.”