This file was never truly necessary and has never actually been used in
the history of Tailscale's open source releases.
A Brief History of AUTHORS files
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The AUTHORS file was a pattern developed at Google, originally for
Chromium, then adopted by Go and a bunch of other projects. The problem
was that Chromium originally had a copyright line only recognizing
Google as the copyright holder. Because Google (and most open source
projects) do not require copyright assignemnt for contributions, each
contributor maintains their copyright. Some large corporate contributors
then tried to add their own name to the copyright line in the LICENSE
file or in file headers. This quickly becomes unwieldy, and puts a
tremendous burden on anyone building on top of Chromium, since the
license requires that they keep all copyright lines intact.
The compromise was to create an AUTHORS file that would list all of the
copyright holders. The LICENSE file and source file headers would then
include that list by reference, listing the copyright holder as "The
Chromium Authors".
This also become cumbersome to simply keep the file up to date with a
high rate of new contributors. Plus it's not always obvious who the
copyright holder is. Sometimes it is the individual making the
contribution, but many times it may be their employer. There is no way
for the proejct maintainer to know.
Eventually, Google changed their policy to no longer recommend trying to
keep the AUTHORS file up to date proactively, and instead to only add to
it when requested: https://opensource.google/docs/releasing/authors.
They are also clear that:
> Adding contributors to the AUTHORS file is entirely within the
> project's discretion and has no implications for copyright ownership.
It was primarily added to appease a small number of large contributors
that insisted that they be recognized as copyright holders (which was
entirely their right to do). But it's not truly necessary, and not even
the most accurate way of identifying contributors and/or copyright
holders.
In practice, we've never added anyone to our AUTHORS file. It only lists
Tailscale, so it's not really serving any purpose. It also causes
confusion because Tailscalars put the "Tailscale Inc & AUTHORS" header
in other open source repos which don't actually have an AUTHORS file, so
it's ambiguous what that means.
Instead, we just acknowledge that the contributors to Tailscale (whoever
they are) are copyright holders for their individual contributions. We
also have the benefit of using the DCO (developercertificate.org) which
provides some additional certification of their right to make the
contribution.
The source file changes were purely mechanical with:
git ls-files | xargs sed -i -e 's/\(Tailscale Inc &\) AUTHORS/\1 contributors/g'
Updates #cleanup
Change-Id: Ia101a4a3005adb9118051b3416f5a64a4a45987d
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
This exports a number of things from the derp (generic + client) package
to be used by the new derpserver package, as now used by cmd/derper.
And then enough other misc changes to lock in that cmd/tailscaled can
be configured to not bring in tailscale.com/client/local. (The webclient
in particular, even when disabled, was bringing it in, so that's now fixed)
Fixes#17257
Change-Id: I88b6c7958643fb54f386dd900bddf73d2d4d96d5
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Observed on some airlines (British Airways, WestJet), Squid is
configured to cache and transform these results, which is disruptive.
The server and client should both actively request that this is not done
by setting Cache-Control headers.
Send a timestamp parameter to further work against caches that do not
respect the cache-control headers.
Updates #14856
Signed-off-by: James Tucker <james@tailscale.com>
In f77821fd63 (released in v1.72.0), we made the client tell a DERP server
when the connection was not its ideal choice (the first node in its region).
But we didn't do anything with that information until now. This adds a
metric about how many such connections are on a given derper, and also
adds a bit to the PeerPresentFlags bitmask so watchers can identify
(and rebalance) them.
Updates tailscale/corp#372
Change-Id: Ief8af448750aa6d598e5939a57c062f4e55962be
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
The netcheck client, when no UDP is available, probes distance using
HTTPS.
Several problems:
* It probes using /derp/latency-check.
* But cmd/derper serves the handler at /derp/probe
* Despite the difference, it work by accident until c8f4dfc8c0
which made netcheck's probe require a 2xx status code.
* in tests, we only use derphttp.Handler, so the cmd/derper-installed
mux routes aren't preesnt, so there's no probe. That breaks
tests in airplane mode. netcheck.Client then reports "unexpected
HTTP status 426" (Upgrade Required)
This makes derp handle both /derp/probe and /derp/latency-check
equivalently, and in both cmd/derper and derphttp.Handler standalone
modes.
I notice this when wgengine/magicsock TestActiveDiscovery was failing
in airplane mode (no wifi). It still doesn't pass, but it gets
further.
Fixes#11989
Change-Id: I45213d4bd137e0f29aac8bd4a9ac92091065113f
This updates all source files to use a new standard header for copyright
and license declaration. Notably, copyright no longer includes a date,
and we now use the standard SPDX-License-Identifier header.
This commit was done almost entirely mechanically with perl, and then
some minimal manual fixes.
Updates #6865
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
Otherwise random browser requests to /derp cause log spam.
Change-Id: I7bdf991d2106f0323868e651156c788a877a90d5
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
* advertise server's DERP public key following its ServerHello
* have client look for that DEPR public key in the response
PeerCertificates
* let client advertise it's going into a "fast start" mode
if it finds it
* modify server to support that fast start mode, just not
sending the HTTP response header
Cuts down another round trip, bringing the latency of being able to
write our first DERP frame from SF to Bangalore from ~725ms
(3 RTT) to ~481ms (2 RTT: TCP and TLS).
Fixes#693
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Will Norris
Brad Fitzpatrick
James Tucker
Charlotte Brandhorst-Satzkorn
David Anderson
David Crawshaw
Earl Lee