osCommerce is a free software development community developed and maintained by the online store solution. As the follow open source software development and publishing agreement, osCommerce free to download, install and use, and can be modified and published in accordance with their needs, can be applied to any business environment, but can not use their own activities to modify profit in nature, Details of the GNU General Public License agreements refer to Appendix.
Commerce is a "commercial" means, os is the abbreviation of Open Source, Open Source Chinese called "open source", herein referred to as "open source." Named osCommerce meant to represent "open source business software," Furthermore, osCommerce is an online shop using the Internet to build applications, so we can call it "open source online shop program."