[ros-users] OctoMap in alufr-ros-pkg, now BSD-licensed

[Armin Hornung]

Hi!

After the previous discussions, I moved the ROS-integration of our 
OctoMap 3D mapping library (http://octomap.sf.net/) into Freiburg's ROS 
repository (http://www.ros.org/wiki/alufr-ros-pkg), which will also 
contain all the code with regard to our newly-arrived PR2 in the future. 
The "octomap_mapping" stack now contains the actual "octomap" package 
which downloads and compiles OctoMap from SVN, and an octomap_server 
package with a simple map server.

In order to enable a tighter integration of OctoMap into ROS we also 
decided to change the licensing of OctoMap from GPL to BSD. Only our 
"octovis" visualization GUI remains GPL-licensed because it is based on 
libQGLViewer.

Best regards,
Armin

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Armin Hornung                              Albert-Ludwigs-Universität
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