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 change adds full IPv6 support to the Kubernetes operator's DNS functionality,
enabling dual-stack and IPv6-only cluster support.
Fixes#16633
Signed-off-by: Raj Singh <raj@tailscale.com>
Implements the controller for the new ProxyGroup CRD, designed for
running proxies in a high availability configuration. Each proxy gets
its own config and state Secret, and its own tailscale node ID.
We are currently mounting all of the config secrets into the container,
but will stop mounting them and instead read them directly from the kube
API once #13578 is implemented.
Updates #13406
Signed-off-by: Tom Proctor <tomhjp@users.noreply.github.com>
Turn off stateful filtering for egress proxies to allow cluster
traffic to be forwarded to tailnet.
Allow configuring stateful filter via tailscaled config file.
Deprecate EXPERIMENTAL_TS_CONFIGFILE_PATH env var and introduce a new
TS_EXPERIMENTAL_VERSIONED_CONFIG env var that can be used to provide
containerboot a directory that should contain one or more
tailscaled config files named cap-<tailscaled-cap-version>.hujson.
Containerboot will pick the one with the newest capability version
that is not newer than its current capability version.
Proxies with this change will not work with older Tailscale
Kubernetes operator versions - users must ensure that
the deployed operator is at the same version or newer (up to
4 version skew) than the proxies.
Updates tailscale/tailscale#12061
Signed-off-by: Irbe Krumina <irbe@tailscale.com>
Co-authored-by: Maisem Ali <maisem@tailscale.com>
Will Norris
Raj Singh
Irbe Krumina
Tom Proctor
Brad Fitzpatrick