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

[Alolita Sharma]

Hi Folks,

I checked the official source code and license at
https://github.com/aws/amazon-freertos/blob/master/LICENSE.

It seems to be boilerplate MIT so where did you find the copy above. So
there may not be an issue here.

Best,
Alolita



On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 5:48 PM, Alolita Sharma <alolita.sharma at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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