<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hello!<br><br>My team at the Robotics and AI Institute want to upstream our opensource <a href="https://github.com/bdaiinstitute/spot_ros2">Spot ROS 2 driver</a> to the ROS 2 buildfarm; however, this involves also upstreaming Boston Dynamic's Spot SDK. We have permission from BD to do so, but they have a custom license that is not approved by the OSRF. We reached out to OSRF to ask for an exception and were directed to submit the license for approval by OSI.<br><br>Looking at the review process and requirements, we are concerned that BD's license won't fulfill OSD 2, 8, and 10. Simply put, the license is a modified version of the MIT license to prevent anyone copying BD's robots. I've attached a copy of the license for reference.</div><div><br></div><div>Could anyone advise us if this even has the possibility of getting approved or not?<br><br>Thank you!</div></div><div>Tiffany</div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0pt" align="left"><table style="border:none;border-collapse:collapse"><colgroup><col width="136"><col width="296"></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height:81.75pt"><td style="vertical-align:middle;overflow:hidden"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt"><span><a href="https://rai-inst.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="border:none;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;width:122px;height:122px"><img alt="https://rai-inst.com/" src="https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdG2mdkV82H-AOPNbHFoQMxVNGvIxh-ShgVs6yCOdWOd-2QJNPD0jDVVF00EFK1h0b0yQlUfxvdMB7ySG0y7zzQ76jInLY8Mwk6rcm3MCbwuzCnkOUQoPA3SYy8SGxIKFzlHOjw8A?key=38qPTDlBXQnzRyIV6Q8CYg" width="122" height="122" style="margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px"></span></span></a></span><a href="https://rai-inst.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="border:none;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;width:122px;height:122px"></span></span></a></p></td><td style="vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:2pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(19,12,44);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">Tiffany Cappellari</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Roboto Mono",monospace;color:rgb(19,12,44);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">Roboticist/Software Engineer</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt"><a href="mailto:tcappellari@rai-inst.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Roboto Mono",monospace;color:rgb(108,72,252);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">tcappellari@rai-inst.com</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(19,12,44);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">Robotics and AI Institute</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt"><a href="http://www.rai-inst.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Roboto Mono",monospace;color:rgb(108,72,252);vertical-align:baseline">www.rai-inst.com</span></a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></span></div></div></div>