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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"QAPage","mainEntity":{"@type":"Question","name":"Is the copyright holder of this software really Amazon ?","text":"\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eDear feilipu,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eIn the LICENSE file for the Arduino_FreeRTOS_library, the Copyright notice is as follows:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"Box Box--condensed my-2\"\u003e\n  \u003cdiv class=\"Box-header f6\"\u003e\n    \u003cp class=\"mb-0 text-bold\"\u003e\n      \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/feilipu/Arduino_FreeRTOS_Library/blob/329328e050eed1b59da013af2ca6e697b0be601d/LICENSE#L2\"\u003eArduino_FreeRTOS_Library/LICENSE\u003c/a\u003e\n    \u003c/p\u003e\n    \u003cp class=\"mb-0 color-fg-muted\"\u003e\n         Line 2\n      in\n      \u003ca data-pjax=\"true\" class=\"commit-tease-sha Link--inTextBlock\" href=\"/feilipu/Arduino_FreeRTOS_Library/commit/329328e050eed1b59da013af2ca6e697b0be601d\"\u003e329328e\u003c/a\u003e\n    \u003c/p\u003e\n  \u003c/div\u003e\n  \u003cdiv itemprop=\"text\" class=\"Box-body p-0 blob-wrapper blob-wrapper-embedded data\"\u003e\n    \u003ctable class=\"highlight tab-size mb-0 js-file-line-container\" data-tab-size=\"8\" data-paste-markdown-skip=\"\"\u003e\n\n        \u003ctbody\u003e\u003ctr class=\"border-0\"\u003e\n          \u003ctd id=\"L2\" class=\"blob-num border-0 tmp-px-3 py-0 color-bg-default\" data-line-number=\"2\"\u003e\u003c/td\u003e\n          \u003ctd id=\"LC2\" class=\"blob-code border-0 tmp-px-3 py-0 color-bg-default blob-code-inner js-file-line\"\u003e Copyright (C) 2020 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.  All Rights Reserved. \u003c/td\u003e\n        \u003c/tr\u003e\n    \u003c/tbody\u003e\u003c/table\u003e\n  \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eI just wanted to mention it, in case it is a copy/paste mistake.\u003c/p\u003e","upvoteCount":1,"answerCount":1,"acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eThanks for asking.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eYes. Generally, the copywrite holder is Amazon, since they purchased the rights from FreeRTOS and re-released the code under MIT licence. The base code is kept, to as great an extent as practical, identical to the code in the main \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS-Kernel\"\u003eFreeRTOS Kernel\u003c/a\u003e repository, but redacted into just the files relevant here.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eAlso, most of my own work here has been \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS-Kernel/pull/48\" data-hovercard-type=\"pull_request\" data-hovercard-url=\"/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS-Kernel/pull/48/hovercard\"\u003eaccepted into the mainline FreeRTOS code as the ATmegaxxx port\u003c/a\u003e, which also implies providing the copyright to Amazon (under MIT terms).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eThere are a few files that retain copyright by me, and they're noted as such in the header of the file.\u003c/p\u003e","upvoteCount":1,"url":"https://github.com/feilipu/Arduino_FreeRTOS_Library/discussions/85#discussioncomment-189537"}}}