<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div>    Today Amazon relicensed FreeRTOS from GPLv2 to "MIT"[1].</div><div><br></div><div>However they didn't quite use the standard OSI MIT text. [2] instead they used:</div><div><br></div><div><pre style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:monospace,sans-serif;word-wrap:normal;overflow:auto;color:rgb(85,85,85)"><span class="gmail-gi" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:rgb(221,255,221);color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline-block;width:689px">FreeRTOS Kernel V10.0.0</span>
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<span class="gmail-gi" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:rgb(221,255,221);color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline-block;width:689px">+ * the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to</span>
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<span class="gmail-gi" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:rgb(221,255,221);color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline-block;width:689px">+ * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all</span>
<span class="gmail-gi" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:rgb(221,255,221);color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline-block;width:689px">+ * copies or substantial portions of the Software. If you wish to use our Amazon</span>
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</pre></div><div><span class="gmail-gi" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:rgb(221,255,221);color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline-block;width:689px"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div>The phrase "If you wish to use our Amazon FreeRTOS name, please do so in a fair use way that does not cause confusion".</div><div>is an extra condition.    </div><div><br></div><div>For those creating license scanners,  should the change be considered substantive enough to warrant a new license, </div><div>or should it be recognized as  OSI's "MIT"?    </div><div><br></div><div>Since FreeRTOS is so pervasive in the embedded world,  we'll likely need to address this in SPDX license list if it </div><div>warrants a new license identifier.</div><div><br></div><div>Thoughts?</div><div><br></div><div>Kate</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/freertos/code/2519/#diff-1">https://sourceforge.net/p/freertos/code/2519/#diff-1</a></div><div>[2] <a href="https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT">https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>