[License-review] Submission of Orivex Syscall Note License (OSN-1.0) for OSI Approval

[McCoy Smith]

On 10/23/2025 12:04 AM, Pamela Chestek wrote:
>
> Section 5.4 is unnecessary. I've never seen it argued that a project 
> must accept contributions, so saying that you don't have to in some, 
> or any, circumstance doesn't add anything.
>
The whole contribution section really doesn't make sense.

Section 5.2 says "Each Contributor grants the Licensor and recipients of 
the Software the licenses described in Sections 2 and 3 for their 
Contribution." But Section 5.3 says "Optionally, the Licensor may 
provide a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) or Developer Agreement for 
signature; signing such an agreement is not mandatory to contribute 
but may be required by the project for administrative or corporate 
compliance reasons."

What happens if the terms of the 5.3 contribution agreement are 
narrower, or broader, than the automatic contribution terms in 5.2? 
Which terms govern the contribution? Also, if the CLA of 5.3 is not 
mandatory to contribute, what's the point in addressing it in this license?


Also, the requirements for approval are that you:

  * Describe what gap not filled by currently existing licenses that the
    new license will fill.
  * Compare it to and contrast it with the most similar OSI-approved
    license(s).
  * Describe any legal review the license has been through, including
    whether it was drafted by a lawyer.


I'm not sure any of these have been done (there certainly isn't any 
discussion of legal review); there is a mention of this license being 
somewhat based on Apache-2.0 or perhaps MIT or perhaps both and it seems 
to borrow some of the text of those licenses, but it's not clear to me 
what gap this license fills over that license (other than the various 
non-mandatory portions already commented upon) and how it differs and 
contrasts with that license. I tried to do a redline compare of OSN vs 
Apache 2.0 and didn't see a whole lot that was reproduced.

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