Ask Slashdot: Open Sourced Mall Software

peyote was looking for some thoughts on the following issue: "I am looking for feedback regarding OSS shopping mall software. First, does any OSS software exist that provides an online mall environment for use with Linux & Apache? What are *your* experiences with that software? Second, would such a thing be of interest to the community as a whole? So I'm just researching a little behind what the community as a whole thinks about this. Would this be something that might be useful? What would be involved in coordinating an Open Source development group, should this project go GPL? I appreciate any comments you all may be able to contribute!" Sounds interesting! What do you all think? Here's more information on the project background from peyote.
We are a non-profit organization that has developed, in-house, a set of perl scripts that implement a shopping mall. Some important bits: MySQL is the backend, it's developed to be a multi-store mall, and uses PGP and SSL w/o a problem. It also supports CyberCash, among other things. We are now looking at a number of things to be added to the software. It is at the point where it would be perfect to GPL -- we can't really afford the manpower and money to develop it to the point where we finally want it to be, and I see something of a void in the OSS community WRT mall software. The software is *very* functional and has worked very well for us!"