OctoMap / octomap

An Efficient Probabilistic 3D Mapping Framework Based on Octrees. Contains the main OctoMap library, the viewer octovis, and dynamicEDT3D.
http://octomap.github.io
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License issue with Octomap and Octomap viewer #121

Closed bernabei24 closed 8 years ago

bernabei24 commented 8 years ago

Octomap package has a BSD license as see below, however it includes the octovis viewer in the source of the package. The octovis viewer has a GPL v2 license that is not BSD and is unusable and should be removed from the octomap package.

2 octomap 3 1.8.0 4 The OctoMap library implements a 3D occupancy grid mapping approach, providing data structures and mapping algorithms in C++. The map implementation is based on an octree. See 5 http://octomap.github.io for details. 6 7 Kai M. Wurm 8 Armin Hornung 9 Armin Hornung 10 BSD
ahornung commented 8 years ago

You are right, the octomap package is BSD licensed and octovis GPL due to including QGLViewer.

But octomap is not linking octovis in any way, it's the other way around. Note that the octomap "distribution" repository contains 3 different packages, all with their own license.