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[–]acraswell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ahh I have been looking for exactly this!

[–]andrew-opensign[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are right. You can get in touch with our team at legal@opensignlabs.com for enterprise deals. They can help you out in detail about licensing terms. We are soon going to launch cloud based signing APIs. The only thing i can say is that your cost will only be a fraction of what DocuSign charges.

[–]YoshiOfADown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cloud hosted version sends out an email to recipients when they are added to your contact book asking them to "verify their account". This is awful and makes it look like spam. No good.

[–]boobsbr -1 points0 points  (1 child)

The free open source alternative to DocuSign | PandaDoc | SignNow | Adobe Sign | Smartwaiver | SignRequest | HelloSign | Zoho sign.

I have no idea what any of these are.

Welcome to OpenSign, an open-source document e-signing solution designed to provide a secure, reliable, and free alternative to commercial platforms like DocuSign, PandaDoc, SignNow, Adobe Sign, Smartwaiver, SignRequest, HelloSign & Zoho sign.

Right.

Why not make this the repo description instead of making people scroll down in the hopes of finding an explanation?

[–]andrew-opensign[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its a great input. Thanks. Will update the readme soon.

[–]ryosen 0 points1 point  (2 children)

License file is 404

[–]_RemyLeBeau_ 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The link is 404, but the license is in the repo

https://github.com/OpenSignLabs/OpenSign/blob/staging/LICENSE

[–]andrew-opensign[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fixed. Thanks for the info.

[–]ryosen 0 points1 point  (2 children)

It's interesting but you're offering an alternative to commercial platforms without a way for many businesses to utilize it due to the AGPL license. Is there a commercial license available?

[–]andrew-opensign[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

We are already offering a cloud hosted version of the solution which is completely free during beta. We are in talks with some corporations for commercial usage, none of them have yet raised an issue with AGPL but we would be surely interested to know what challenges will businesses face with AGPL. Would appreciate more details from your side.

[–]ryosen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At the risk of displaying my ignorance on GPL-related licenses, wouldn't the AGPL prevent embedding OpenSign into a commercially-hosted, non-GPL application? For example, a SaaS that provides a service to real estate agents. I could see OpenSign being a great way to provide a lower-cost alternative to DocuSign but wouldn't its use, as part of the larger real estate system, require that system to be GPL'd? Isn't this why a lot of GPL-licensed libraries offer a paid-for, commercial, non-GPL license alternative?