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.