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

[Alolita Sharma]

All good points. I will forward to the licensing review folks at Amazon.

Best,
Alolita



On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 5:40 PM, Bruce Perens <bruce at perens.com> wrote:

> > 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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