I'm evaluating open source shopping carts to try and make a decision on which platform to go with.
Cs.Cart seems to tout the word “open source” all over it's website and documentation. However, I'm unable to find a download that has a license that would be recognized as an “open source” license. ( As described here, for example: [url=“Licenses & Standards | Open Source Initiative”]http://opensource.org/licenses[/url])
I did notice this page: [url=“Download the most feature-rich B2B eCommerce software CS-Cart B2B&B2C”]https://www.cs-cart.com/free.html[/url] But, if that's the case, why is Cs-Cart still touting itself as “open source” ? Right on the front page is this tagline: “Amazing ecommerce platform with 100% open source code”
Can someone share what the Cs.Cart team means when they say “open source”?
I speak unofficially, but I thinkt hey mean there is no encrypted code in the software. You have full control to read/edit every line of code.
Again, this is “MY” understanding, and I do not speak on behalf of CS.
CS-Cart is 100% open source, but not free! You can check the license License Agreement on the Use of CS-Cart, and later everybody can access to a free version of Ultimate CS-Cart, as a replacement of the deprecated Community Edition.
Open Source means, that you can check all the line of codes, and you can access every data, and you can modify it, if you want, and if you have a legal license.
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I'm evaluating open source shopping carts to try and make a decision on which platform to go with.
Cs.Cart seems to tout the word “open source” all over it's website and documentation. However, I'm unable to find a download that has a license that would be recognized as an “open source” license. ( As described here, for example: [url=“Licenses & Standards | Open Source Initiative”]http://opensource.org/licenses[/url])
I did notice this page: [url=“Download the most feature-rich B2B eCommerce software CS-Cart B2B&B2C”]https://www.cs-cart.com/free.html[/url] But, if that's the case, why is Cs-Cart still touting itself as “open source” ? Right on the front page is this tagline: “Amazing ecommerce platform with 100% open source code”
Can someone share what the Cs.Cart team means when they say “open source”?
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Open source means Freedom and need not be free. In other words “Free as in freedom not as in beer”
You pay for the product but you get all the code too.