Editing Open Software License (section)

===Assent to license===
The restriction contained in Section 9 of the OSL reads:

{{blockquote|If You distribute or communicate copies of the Original Work or a Derivative Work, You must make a reasonable effort under the circumstances to obtain the express assent of recipients to the terms of this License.<ref name="Open Source Initiative"/>}}

In its analysis of the OSL the [[Free Software Foundation]] claims that "this requirement means that distributing OSL software on ordinary FTP sites, sending patches to ordinary mailing lists, or storing the software in an ordinary version control system, can arguably be a violation of the license and would subject violators to possible termination of the license. Thus, the OSL makes it challenging to develop software using the ordinary tools of Free Software development."<ref name=gnu>{{cite web|url=https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#OSL |title=Various Licenses and Comments about Them – GNU Project – Free Software Foundation (FSF) |publisher=Gnu.org |access-date=2012-03-04}}</ref>

Rosen contradicts this, stating in an explanation of his license that "most open source projects and commercial distributors already use appropriate procedures to obtain the manifest assent of their licensees, so this OSL 3.0 requirement is not intended to require something different than what now happens in ordinary software distribution practice."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://rosenlaw.com/OSL3.0-explained.htm#_Toc187293086 |title=OSL 3.0 Explained |publisher=rosenlaw.com  |access-date=2023-12-12}}</ref>