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Is this the only one or are there others defined by other sign conventions?

As has already been mentioned - there are essentially two but the Koszul one is amongst other things, the only one which makes the tensor product of complexes a complex.

Since I have been interested in this topic of late, I would point you towards the following internal (within MathOverflow) references:

For a recent discussion see MathOverflow question: Tensor product of linear mappings versus chain complexes

In particular Simon Letner and Qiaochu Yauns' answers provide a nice conceptual backdrop.

I also found Theo Johnson-Freyd's answer in this MathOverflow question quite illuminating: References for sign conventions in homological algebra

Theo Johnson-Freyd's answer in this thread is also instructive: Sign convention for derivations in CDGAs

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