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

[Kate Stewart]

And if you look in the individual files on that github repo, you see it
too...

https://github.com/aws/amazon-freertos/blob/master/lib/FreeRTOS/list.c

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 8:20 PM, Kate Stewart <kstewart at linuxfoundation.org>
wrote:

> Hi Alolita,
>     I found it the checkin...
>
> https://sourceforge.net/p/freertos/code/2519/#diff-1
>
> Kate
>
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 8:11 PM, Alolita Sharma <alolita.sharma at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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