> The process for creating and revising the contracts is modeled after an open-source software project Which Open Source Project? Could you link it please?
We didn't model it after a particular open-source project. Rather, we tried to take lessons learned from open-source software projects in general and apply those lessons to the creation and maintenance of the standard contracts.
> What do you mean by Open Source Contracts? Do you mean community edits & maintains contract templates?
There's a few elements of what we mean by this:
- The contracts are released under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. It shares a lot of principals and goals with the OSI licenses for software (eg Apache and GPL) but is built for things other than software
- Yes, the community edits and creates the agreements. The community members are largely attorneys rather than software developers, and you can see a list of some of the most active members here: https://commonpaper.com/committee/
- We have an amazing attorney on our team who is analogous to the maintainer of an open-source project. She solicits and collects feedback from the community and makes the final decision about what does and doesn't get into any particular release.
> The process for creating and revising the contracts is modeled after an open-source software project Which Open Source Project? Could you link it please?
We didn't model it after a particular open-source project. Rather, we tried to take lessons learned from open-source software projects in general and apply those lessons to the creation and maintenance of the standard contracts.
> What do you mean by Open Source Contracts? Do you mean community edits & maintains contract templates?
There's a few elements of what we mean by this: - The contracts are released under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. It shares a lot of principals and goals with the OSI licenses for software (eg Apache and GPL) but is built for things other than software - Yes, the community edits and creates the agreements. The community members are largely attorneys rather than software developers, and you can see a list of some of the most active members here: https://commonpaper.com/committee/ - We have an amazing attorney on our team who is analogous to the maintainer of an open-source project. She solicits and collects feedback from the community and makes the final decision about what does and doesn't get into any particular release.
>Do you have APIs to integrate?
Yes, and you can see the docs here: https://api.commonpaper.com/docs
>Do you have your own way of signing contracts or use third party tools like DocuSign?
We embed Dropbox Sign (formerly HelloSign) within our product for this step