Because of the globalization of the world economy, the cooperation between countries and enterprises becomes more and more. At the same time, the apperance of internet offers an effective and conveinent way for information delivery. People could distribute and receive information from it, and thus people could share more and more information. On this basis, people proposed the concept of opening source software. By openning source code, people could share software without expense. By doing this, the developer of software could utilize others work, and to some extent, it promotes the development of IT software.
The world openning source develops quickly. After developed for 3 stages, there appears a flourishing condition. In China, new opening source software companys appeared, and the opening source software community developes continuously, and the results of attending international opening source software community become more and more. But at the present time, China is still in its changing period, and many people say China is the consumer of opening source software community, but not the contributor. China still has a long way to go on this way.
In this paper, by surveying the commercial mode of open source software and analyzing the commercial software, the author will finish the research of classification of open source software(compare the extent of application range, find out the typical representative, analyze the cases, and illustrate the profit mode), authorization (multiple aggrement ), profit mode, application range, and the problems that existed. And the author hopes he could make contributions to open source software and its development.
