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8 Sep 2007, 6:26 PM
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Zen Cart clone? Possible fraud site

I was browsing through Google and came across

http://www.ecommerceshoppingcartsoftware.org/

Hmmm... oddly familiar setup and pages!

It looks like to me that they just scrubbed off the Zen references and are touting it as their own.

Is this a common incident? I know Zen Cart is free but aren't there copyright issues at stake as well as possible security ones? I could see fraud artists doing something like this and installing backdoors into the admin area.

Just curious....

8 Sep 2007, 6:36 PM
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Re: Zen Cart clone? Possible fraud site

its not ZC,
its an OSC fork,
However Harald might not like it,
they replaced the copyright from the admin....

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8 Sep 2007, 6:42 PM
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Re: Zen Cart clone? Possible fraud site

That's an osc ripoff. I would imagine HPDL would be chasing them for some of their copyright alterations. It's also more than 3 years old. Doesn't appear to be actively maintained.

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