# Licensing Guidelines #

This document describes some of the licenses we recommend for use in our projects.   Please review them and pick the one that works best for your project

## BSD-3 ##

BSD-3 is the preferred license for ROS1 packages.  It is a permissive license that:
allows:
- modification
- redistribution
- commercial use (including closed source)
- private use

Limitations:
- Liability
- Warranty 

Conditions:
- all software that uses the bsd-3 licensed package (binary and source) must reproduce the copy write information along with a copy of the license.