Why is NVIDIA using a proprietary license?

NVIDIA-ISAAC-ROS / isaac_ros_common

Common utilities, packages, scripts, Dockerfiles, and testing infrastructure for Isaac ROS packages.

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Why is NVIDIA using a proprietary license? #66

Closed TakanoTaiga closed 1 year ago

TakanoTaiga commented 1 year ago

Are Isaac ROS common and Isaac ROS visual SLAM under NVIDIA's proprietary license instead of the Apache License 2.0? It seems that only these two are under a proprietary license within the Isaac ROS platform. Looking at the commit logs, it appears that other projects are updating when releasing DP2.

gordongrigor commented 1 year ago

Great question. Isaac ROS was initially released under a NV commercial license in 2021. We have been moving code to open source Apache V2. You have observed that most of Isaac ROS is provided under Apache v2, in DP3 with a few exceptions.