[CRIU] CRIU and GO

[Jacob Wen]

I agree.

On 10/06/2018 04:01 AM, Adrian Reber wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 03:11:25PM -0700, Andrei Vagin wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 12:40 PM Adrian Reber <adrian at lisas.de> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 05:37:25PM +0200, Adrian Reber wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>>>>>> What do you say? Would it make sense to have an independent go binding
>>>>>>>> for CRIU? Once it works we could start to also use it in runc...
>>>>>> The main idea was to have a canonical location for the go bindings which
>>>>>> is easy to detect and switch runc to using it once it exists. I would
>>>>>> like to use it in podman right now and the vendor/github.com tree is
>>>>>> around 20MB of which 5MB is CRIU. It basically is only a tool problem
>>>>>> (vndr), but it probably is more difficult to change the tool, then
>>>>>> provide CRIU go bindings separately.
>>>>> Ok. All these sound reasonable. I don't have objections about a new repo.
>>>> OK, let me prepare something and I will post it here for review.
>>> I am looking at the phaul GO implementation and I think it would make
>>> sense to include it into the CRIU GO bindings repository. Because it is
>>> kind of the reference implementation/user for the go bindings right now
>>> and would be a good test case. Would you rather keep it in the criu
>>> repository? If necessary we could pull in the CRIU GO bindings
>>> repository in CRIU during travis tests.
>> If we are going to move the go library into a separate repo, I would
>> say that we have to create a separate repo for the phaul library too.
> A question about the license. CRIU is either GPLv2 or LGPL. Do we want a
> more GO language ecosystem compatible license like Apache 2.0 or BSD-3 for
> the GO bindings. According to git following people have made changes to
> the GO bindings and phaul:
>
> Jacob Wen <jian.w.wen at oracle.com>
> Andrei Vagin <avagin at virtuozzo.com>
> Pavel Emelyanov <xemul at virtuozzo.com>
>
> Would all of you agree to relicense the GO bindings under a more
> permissive license like Apache 2.0 or BSD-3?
>
> 		Adrian

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Jacob