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>
Add a new `--encrypt-state` flag to `cmd/tailscaled`. Based on that
flag, migrate the existing state file to/from encrypted format if
needed.
Updates #15830
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lytvynov <awly@tailscale.com>
Rather than make each ipn.StateStore implementation guard against
useless writes (a write of the same value that's already in the
store), do writes via a new wrapper that has a fast path for the
unchanged case.
This then fixes profileManager's flood of useless writes to AWS SSM,
etc.
Updates #8785
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Also move KubeStore and MemStore into their own package.
RELNOTE: tsnet now supports providing a custom ipn.StateStore.
Signed-off-by: Maisem Ali <maisem@tailscale.com>
If a test calls log.Printf, 'go test' horrifyingly rearranges the
output to no longer be in chronological order, which makes debugging
virtually impossible. Let's stop that from happening by making
log.Printf panic if called from any module, no matter how deep, during
tests.
This required us to change the default error handler in at least one
http.Server, as well as plumbing a bunch of logf functions around,
especially in magicsock and wgengine, but also in logtail and backoff.
To add insult to injury, 'go test' also rearranges the output when a
parent test has multiple sub-tests (all the sub-test's t.Logf is always
printed after all the parent tests t.Logf), so we need to screw around
with a special Logf that can point at the "current" t (current_t.Logf)
in some places. Probably our entire way of using subtests is wrong,
since 'go test' would probably like to run them all in parallel if you
called t.Parallel(), but it definitely can't because the're all
manipulating the shared state created by the parent test. They should
probably all be separate toplevel tests instead, with common
setup/teardown logic. But that's a job for another time.
Signed-off-by: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@tailscale.com>
The store is passed-in by callers of NewLocalBackend and
ipnserver.Run, but currently all callers are hardcoded to
an in-memory store. The store is unused.
Signed-Off-By: David Anderson <dave@natulte.net>
Will Norris
Andrew Lytvynov
Brad Fitzpatrick
Maisem Ali
Avery Pennarun
David Anderson