On 04.03.2013 16:24, R. David Murray wrote: > I applaud the foundation for getting an electronic signature method in > place. > > However, I have to say that to my mind echosign is nothing more than > "authentication theater", and I wonder if it is going to make us look > more than a bit clueless to the tech community. I'm surprised that > a lawyer would consider a "signature" generated from typed text to be > useful for anything. If you are are going to accept the typed signature, > just accept the typed signature. > > I was asked to sign a legal document I cared about that way once and I > refused. > > At least there's a way to upload a real signature.
The old paper-trail version is still available, if the new form doesn't work out for you. Whether any version of a signature, other than the wet-signed paper version sent by postal mail actually proves that a agreement was entered, depends a lot on the jurisdictions on both sides of the agreement, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_signature#Enforceability_of_electronic_signatures In our particular case, there's usually a rather long story leading up to someone signing a contrib form, so I don't think we'd ever run into a situation where the above would not be enough to prove the (final) intention of entering an agreement in court. A simple checkbox "I agree" would like be enough and the little extra sugar makes it look smarter :-) -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Mar 04 2013) >>> Python Projects, Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope/Plone.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::::: Try our mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
