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ROS-Industrial Universal Robots support (https://wiki.ros.org/universal_robot)
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Open-source license type #565

Closed sarah-gibson closed 3 years ago

sarah-gibson commented 3 years ago

For the ROS packages in this project that specify BSD license type in package.xml, is this referring to the 3-Clause BSD license?

Also, to whom and what year can I attribute the copyright for packages in this repo?

Thanks!

gavanderhoorn commented 3 years ago

For the ROS packages in this project that specify BSD license type in package.xml, is this referring to the 3-Clause BSD license?

yes, BSD 3-Clause, where BSD is specified.

Also, to whom and what year can I attribute the copyright for packages in this repo?

All packages should list various authors in the author elements in the manifests. For some packages though (such as ur_description), there are many more contributors than listed in the manifests, as it would be infeasible to track them all.

Example for ur_description again:

https://github.com/ros-industrial/universal_robot/blob/e8234318cc94dd287617fc196c1b32bf6e4074a9/ur_description/urdf/ur_macro.xacro#L33-L51

I would suggest to credit "the $pkg contributors" in those cases.

gavanderhoorn commented 3 years ago

Assuming your questions have been answered, I'm going to close this.

Feel free to keep commenting, and if something is unclear, we can re-open.