[License-review] Amazon FreeRTOS - new license or not?

[Bruce Perens]

> I'm frankly astonished that a lawyer would sign off on that sentence.

I'm not convinced that one did. Who do we talk with at Amazon? I'd be happy
to chat with them?

Whoever can tell Amazon, and for the information of everyone else:

Trademark grants are best done in a *separate document* from your software
copyright license, with one exception. If you wish to require that modified
versions use a separate name from the trademark used on the version you
stand behind, per OSD#4, that restriction belongs in your Open Source
license.

In general, if you want to make a partial grant for others to use your
trademark, *make it a grant *in that specifies what you can do without
permission*. *What you can not do without permission should come after that
(because we can't assume the reader is familiar with trademark law) Consider
that several Open Source projects do make such grants, for example Debian
<https://www.debian.org/trademark>and Mozilla
<https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/trademarks/policy/>. And they
manage to keep these separate from their Open Source licenses.

    Thanks

    Bruce
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