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[Víctor Mayoral Vilches]

Hello @bulwahn,

[quote="bulwahn, post:5, topic:2835"]
Did you already have a look at the content of this pull request https://github.com/bmwcarit/meta-ros/pull/538? Is it done identical?
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First time looking at it. Wish this would've been available back in May when we started with it :( . 
>From quick code to the commits, i can see that the PR you refer to is from August. [Our commits](https://github.com/erlerobot/meta-ros2/commits/master?after=71cbc1c71c13e427097514b603802a8c7aa2cb5a+104) started however in May. I asked @abilbaotm to review the code and here's the feedback provided:

> Main differences are:
> * The ament.bbclass https://github.com/rojkov/meta-ros/blob/433b6457bbac9a512097f4d9e55843ff16bb0f22/classes/ament.bbclass: Our ament.bbclass depends on the system's ament which calls to cmake (I was expecting to change that) and the @rojkov's depends directly on cmake and meta-ros classes.
> * The rest seems rather similar.

[quote="bulwahn, post:5, topic:2835"]
Or can we merge those two developments to a best solution of those two in your repository?
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I wouldn't say they are identical though but we're happy to explore this in more detail. We'll create another branch at https://github.com/erlerobot/meta-ros2 exploring the differences. Evaluate both and push the one that gives best results to our master branch. @bulwahn I'm happy giving you maintainer rights to [meta-ros2](https://github.com/erlerobot/meta-ros2).

License-wise:

[quote="esteve, post:4, topic:2835"]
I wondered if there was an actual reason for picking GPLv3.
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>From my (humble) experience with licensing, private companies, for obvious reasons, tend to contribute back more when code is licensed under GPLv3. (Speaking as part of a private company) I'd expect meta-ros2 to be rather popular for quite a few private companies so the license was placed with that in mind. 
That said, again, happy reconsidering the license if it creates a hurdle.





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