Docuseal: Open-source DocuSign alternative. Create, fill, sign digital documents

Re:Docuseal: Open-source DocuSign alternative. Create, fill,... by tyingq on Thursday July 20, 2023 @08:30AM (#36799550)

It does seem on somewhat dangerous ground for "trademark similarity testing", "consumer perception", etc...with "docu-<next word starts with S>".

I'd have gone with "DocSeal" or something that was a harder break from the "DocuSxxx" pattern.

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Re:Docuseal: Open-source DocuSign alternative. Create, fill,... by somery on Thursday July 20, 2023 @09:02AM (#36799829)

Thanks for pointing this out - it actually didn't expect that because of GitHub and GitLab and i haven't hears any trademark dispures between them. When Gitlab differs from Github by only 2 letters - DocuSeal vs DocuSign is already 3 letters.

But i think that's a valid concern and i need to better investigate this - changing the name shouldn't be a problem when the project is still very new.

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Re:Docuseal: Open-source DocuSign alternative. Create, fill,... by tyingq on Thursday July 20, 2023 @09:30AM (#36800165)

Yeah, it's one of those things where there's no definitive guidance, just loose tests. It's possible, for example, that DocuSign wouldn't care.

But, it seems different from GitLab/GitHub since the second word starts differently. GitHut, GitHow, GitHot, etc, vs GitHub would be more similar here.

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Re:Docuseal: Open-source DocuSign alternative. Create, fill,... by MaKey on Thursday July 20, 2023 @09:57AM (#36800499)

I'd keep the name and not worry too much (I like it). Going after a small open source project would be bad press for DocuSign and even if they did, it would be a promotion for DocuSeal and you could change the name afterwards.

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