@Karsten1987 wanted to get your opinion here. I cant think of any drawbacks to moving usb_cam.h to .hpp, can you? also, a few of the linting fixes (specifically the copyright ones) I wasnt sure about.

also a pretty major change in this one is the creation of the usb_cam_utilities.hpp file....just to hold the "helper" methods that were in the usb_cam.hpp header file. I figured these should be separate since there was one that was absolutely huge and just a bunch of numbers.

The way I'd consider this is that at this moment you don't have to deal with API/ABI or even style/behavior changes on the ROS2 branch as there aren't any binary releases for it yet, is that right?
I'd propose to finish up all major changes regarding functionality in one commit, having all lint/cppcheck related, non functional changes in a separate commit. Creating a utilities header lies somewhere in between, but I believe it doesn't matter much.
As for licensing, please be aware that the Bosch LLC is still a copyright holder of this package - even though we mostly abandoned it :( That being said, I am not sure how I feel about having a LICENSE_OLD file in there. There really should only be one license file present.

hi @Karsten1987, yes sorry about the LICENSE_OLD, ill remove it. The "new" license is the same as the old just with different formatting and the copyright is most definitely still in Robert Bosch, LLC's name if you look at the files (even the new one I made called usb_cam_utils.hpp since it is a direct "copy paste" from the usb_cam.h file.

i'll merge together all these updates into one commit so we can move forward

@Karsten1987 pinging you one more time to look this PR over before merging. let me know what you think.