[ros-users] Confirmation on primesense

[Ryan Gariepy]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:39 PM, William Woodall <william at osrfoundation.org
> 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 <piyushk at gmail.com> 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 at 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
>>>
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