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5.3. About the VirtueMart Project

VirtueMart is an Open Source E-Commerce solution for Joomla!.

VirtueMart is released under the GNU General Public License. It is free to download and use.

There's a small group of developers who help in making this Shopping Cart Script more professional and easily usable.

Short note on Project History: VirtueMart is the successor of mambo-phpShop. mambo-phpShop was the first port of phpShop to Mambo. phpShop was developed by Edikon Corp. and the phpShop community - http://www.phpshop.org. Mambo was forked to a new Project called "Joomla!" in 2005. In the same Year mambo-phpShop was renamed to "VirtueMart".