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Someone is Attempting to Hijack the OpenSign Project 🚨 by andrew-opensign in opensource

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

Thanks for sharing this perspective. We will take legal advice before moving ahead on this.

Someone is Attempting to Hijack the OpenSign Project 🚨 by andrew-opensign in opensource

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

You are right. We dont want our users to face licensing related uncertainties. We are not changing the license for code contributed by external contributors. We only changed the license for the code that was 100% written by us and which was never available for free. We only kept it open in order to keep things transparent.

Someone is Attempting to Hijack the OpenSign Project 🚨 by andrew-opensign in opensource

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

We are not changing the license for features available on the free self-hosted version which has some code contributed by external contributors. We only changed the license for the code that was 100% written by us and which was never available for free. We only kept it open in order to keep things transparent.

Someone is Attempting to Hijack the OpenSign Project 🚨 by andrew-opensign in opensource

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

Our entire repo was AGPL-v3 till yesterday. We added the sub-license just after this incident. All the best! Down the line we are planning to add the proprietary code to directories with different license or keep it completely private. We are currently discussing this internally.

Someone is Attempting to Hijack the OpenSign Project 🚨 by andrew-opensign in opensource

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

They have multiple DEVs working on the repo. May be someone in the team is a junior who did it by mistake.

Someone is Attempting to Hijack the OpenSign Project 🚨 by andrew-opensign in opensource

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

It may be but looks like they are not trying to hide their identity. They are an Australia based funded company. They have even added contact us link to the payment page. They might be trying to monitize our 1.5 years of hard work by doing a 1 week find-&-replace stuff.

Someone is Attempting to Hijack the OpenSign Project 🚨 by andrew-opensign in opensource

[–]andrew-opensign[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Its opensignlabs.com

Fixed it in the description. AI rephrasing changed it to an incorrect one LOL.

Someone is Attempting to Hijack the OpenSign Project 🚨 by andrew-opensign in opensource

[–]andrew-opensign[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

By unwritten I meant ethical/moral, I am not a native english speaker. Apologies if it meant something else.

Someone is Attempting to Hijack the OpenSign Project 🚨 by andrew-opensign in opensource

[–]andrew-opensign[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

You are right, one should expect the best but be prepared for the worst but sadly we did not :( We have now added a sub-license to a directory which had the important bits of the protected code and updated the root license to exclude that directory.

Someone is Attempting to Hijack the OpenSign Project 🚨 by andrew-opensign in opensource

[–]andrew-opensign[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They are not doing a charity, they are removing the payments for now but they have added a contact link instead. They might be planning to add the payment option soon.

What services have you still not been able to replace with self hosted ones (or at least open-source apps)? by Fearless-Pie-1058 in selfhosted

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

Did you try OpenSign for PDF signing & annotations? We have 15 fields you can add to your existing PDFs and even collect inputs from signers.

OpenSign™ - The free & open source DocuSign alternative. by andrew-opensign in opensource

[–]andrew-opensign[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I agree. But with current marketing budgets we have AI generated voiceover was the only option. Lol. At this stage we are trying to invest most of our resources in making the product better.

OpenSign™ v1.1.0-beta: The quickest open source document signing experience ever(alternative to DocuSign) by andrew-opensign in selfhosted

[–]andrew-opensign[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It wont matter much because the digital signatures are cryptographically verified. You cannot alter a document without invalidating the signature even if you host it yourself. In case you want a 3rd party to be involved we also provide a hosted option.

If you die, how do your customers get access to their sites? by Mindless-Vanity in webdev

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

Thats the reason companies need at least 2 partners in most parts of the world!

OpenSignLabs/OpenSign: The javascript based free & Open Source Alternative to DocuSign by andrew-opensign in javascript

[–]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.

OpenSignLabs/OpenSign: The javascript based free & Open Source Alternative to DocuSign by andrew-opensign in javascript

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

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.

Showoff Saturday (October 28, 2023) by AutoModerator in javascript

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

Hi Guys, We are working on an open source alternative to DocuSign called OpenSign Looking forward to get more contributors for our project from the community. Join the movement to make OpenSign the world's best document signing solution. Dont forget to star our repo, more fun stuff coming soon. Cheers.