On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:39 PM, William Woodall wrote: > What does that mean for PCL and ROS? > > > Nothing basically, we can continue to release the current version of > openni2 for Xtion and other non-Kinect primesense sensors and I have found > libfreenect to work far better than openni for Kinect v1. As the PCL > developer's mailing list put it, there are many (probably thousands) of > Xtion users in the perception community and that's a plenty large enough > group of people to support maintenance of the project going forward. > > as long as the license for openni's existing open-source code does not get >> changed. > > > AFAIK, there is nothing in their license (Apache 2.0) which they could use > to prevent us from continuing to distribute or fork the existing code on > Github. > This is my understanding as well. > > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Piyush wrote: > >> Xtions don't work with libfreenect (directly) or its ROS wrapper >> freenect_camera. However, I believe openni_camera should continue to work >> for the next 1-2 years, as long as the license for openni's existing >> open-source code does not get changed. >> >> Piyush >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Arkapravo Bhaumik < >> arkapravobhaumik@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Reads like disaster ! I did purchase 2 ASUS Xtions, and found Xtion as >>> more useful than Kinect -- first those went off the market, and now they >>> also stop the OpenNI project. >>> >>> I wonder if Xtions work with freenect ?? ! :-( ..... AFAIK, they don't ! >>> ᐧ >>> >>> -- >>> *Arkapravo Bhaumik* >>> >>> >>> http://mobotica.blogspot.in/p/head.html >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ros-users mailing list >>> ros-users@lists.ros.org >>> http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@lists.ros.org >> http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> >> > > > -- > William Woodall > ROS Development Team > william@osrfoundation.org > http://williamjwoodall.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@lists.ros.org > http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > >