Show HN: OpenSign – The open source alternative to DocuSign

Re:Show HN: OpenSign – The open source alternative to DocuSign by alexopensource on Saturday October 28, 2023 @05:14PM (#38053437)

We also generate a completion certificate that has the time & ip addresses of everyone who accessed and modified a doc during the entire signing process, plus we are open source which means more transparent. We plan to publish a lot of content in that space but with limited resources currently we plan to build the product features first. Also, we are soon going to start our fund raise efforts which will ultimately speed up things.

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Re:Show HN: OpenSign – The open source alternative to DocuSign by szundi on Saturday October 28, 2023 @05:57PM (#38053778)

And soon after suddenly the Pricing page appears, after 3 months of disappointment convenient features turn paying ones. In some more years it is just as expensive as Docusign.

Eh sorry, I’m just sad about Rocket Chat.

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Re:Show HN: OpenSign – The open source alternative to DocuSign by alexopensource on Saturday October 28, 2023 @06:10PM (#38053874)

The self hosted version will always be free :)

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Re:Show HN: OpenSign – The open source alternative to DocuSign by josephcsible on Saturday October 28, 2023 @06:42PM (#38054090)

Your CONTRIBUTING.md file says "By contributing, you agree that your contributions will be licensed under its MIT License." Since OpenSign is AGPLv3, why don't you allow contributions under the same license, if the self hosted version will always be free? I'm worried that the purpose of that might be to let you make it proprietary later.

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Re:Show HN: OpenSign – The open source alternative to DocuSign by tormeh on Saturday October 28, 2023 @10:31PM (#38055401)

AGPL for thee but not for me, for I require MIT.

To be fair, this is an entirely reasonable way to do business, but it's also a bit funny.

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Re:Show HN: OpenSign – The open source alternative to DocuSign by anonymous_sorry on Sunday October 29, 2023 @05:44AM (#38057039)

I guess this allows them integrate with proprietary code on their back end if necessary, whilst making it hard for a competitor to take their code and undercut them, since most corps with proprietary software to protect won't touch AGPLv3 with a barge pole.

Nothing prevents an AGPLv3 fork if OpenSign goes proptrietary in future.

I'd rather this approach than yet another non-standard Amazon-proof licence.

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Re:Show HN: OpenSign – The open source alternative to DocuSign by josephcsible on Sunday October 29, 2023 @06:15PM (#38063392)

> I guess this allows them integrate with proprietary code on their back end if necessary

Couldn't they have accomplished that just by asking for GPLv3 instead of AGPLv3? That would let them do so without letting them make the self-hosted version non-free, unlike asking for MIT.

> Nothing prevents an AGPLv3 fork if OpenSign goes proprietary in future.

Yes, but this would be true for almost any FOSS license offered and regardless of what they ask of contributors.

> I'd rather this approach than yet another non-standard Amazon-proof licence.

I very much agree with this.

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Re:Show HN: OpenSign – The open source alternative to DocuSign by blurr123 on Sunday October 29, 2023 @10:55AM (#38059165)

Ive been using rabbitsign since 2021 to get signatures on legal docs for work.

Covid made this acceptable.

https://www.rabbitsign.com/

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Re:Show HN: OpenSign – The open source alternative to DocuSign by djbusby on Saturday October 28, 2023 @07:22PM (#38054416)

Those certs integrated with with any Timestamp Authority?

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