[Feature Request]: Remove LGPL dependencies from Go SDK

[OliverCardoza]

What would you like to happen?

The Beam Go SDK includes gopkg.in/retry.v1 as a dependency. This dependency is licensed under LGPL which is a more restrictive license. This appears to be a violation of the ASF 3rd party license policy:

• https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-x

This feature request is to remove usage of gopkg.in/retry.v1. This could be replaced with another open source alternative such as github.com/avast/retry-go (docs) which uses the MIT license.

Search of usage seems to return 2 usages:

• https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aapache%2Fbeam+%2F%5Cbretry%5C.%2F+lang%3Ago&type=code

Might be a nice starter task 🙂

Issue Priority

Priority: 3 (nice-to-have improvement)

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[OliverCardoza]

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