Editing Open Software License (section)

===Linking does not create a derivative work===
OSL in section 1(a) authorizes licensees to reproduce covered software "as part of a collective work," as distinct from the Original Work or a Derivative Work.  In section 1(c), only Derivate Works or copies of the Original Work are made subject to the license, not collective works. Derivative Work is defined in section 1(b) as being created when the licensee exercise their ability "to translate, adapt, alter, transform, modify, or arrange the Original Work."<ref name="Open Source Initiative"/>

Rosen has written:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://rosenlaw.com/OSL3.0-explained.htm#_Toc187293087 |title=OSL 3.0 Explained |publisher=rosenlaw.com  |access-date=2022-01-24}}</ref>
{{blockquote|The verbs used in § 1(b) ["translate, adapt, alter, transform, modify, or arrange"] reflect the kinds of activities that we generally do to create derivative literary or other expressive works, and those things—not functional linking—create Derivative Works as defined in this license. As a result, linking an unchanged Original Work with another independently-written work does not, absent more, create a Derivative Work subject to § 1(b); such an act is merely the incorporation of a copy of that Original Work into a collective work, authorized by § 1(a). }}