The osCommerce Solutions

Although the solutions osCommerce provide (such as "osCommerce Online Merchant") are released under the GNU General Public License, we do enforce our copyright rights concerning the solutions. This means that, while you have considerable freedom to modify and redistribute the osCommerce solutions, there are conditions placed on the osCommerce copyright notices.

The osCommerce copyright announcement displayed on the Administration Tool of osCommerce Online Merchant complies with section 2c of the GNU General Public License (GPL) and thus can not be removed, or may only be appropriately modified with addtional copyright notices.

It is not the intention of the osCommerce Online Merchant Administration Tool copyright announcement to claim rights or contest your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to exercise the right to control the distribution of derivative or collective works based on osCommerce Online Merchant.

It is entirely within your right however to add to the copyright notice to claim rights on the changes you have made.

The osCommerce copyright announcement displayed on the Catalog side of osCommerce Online Merchant can, however, be modified, and even be removed.

Please note that the osCommerce Online Merchant Administration Tool copyright announcement must still exist regardless if the default osCommerce-copyrighted Administration Tool theme has been modified.

The separate text "Powered by osCommerce", or similar text, displayed on both Administration Tool and Catalog modules is optional to have displayed.