On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Jack O'Quin <jack.oquin@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This becomes more important with nodelets.  For camera1394, can this
>> be resolved by contacting the authors to re-license as LGPL or BSD?
>
> Perhaps.
>
> There are only three source files left with GPL licenses. One is easy
> to replace. Unfortunately, the other two have many authors.
>
> I'll see if I can contact them all.

Let me know if we can help.  Nate is at WG and may be able to contact
some of the old authors.

> PS. I am unclear about the exact legal status of a dynamically loaded
> plugin. Can someone please explain the details?

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins

 - Ken