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

[Kate Stewart]

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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