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I am not a licensing expert in any way, but to my best knowledge the use case you describe is covered by the GPL. You would need to supply source code for you modified GPL code for free, but TCP/IP communications (ROS) with proprietary software should be OK.

I'd be interested in answers that could confirm/refute this in a better verified way.

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