[CRIU] CRIU and GO

[Andrei Vagin]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 10:01:05PM +0200, 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?

Ok

> 
> 		Adrian