[ros-users] call for an official ROS USB camera package

[Jack O'Quin]

On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Ken Conley <kwc at willowgarage.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Jack O'Quin <jack.oquin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Although I have not quite gotten there yet with camera1394, I believe
>> everyone would prefer a BSD license to the GPL. However, if the best
>> or only immediately available solution is GPL, that would still be
>> better than none.
>
> 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.

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