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>
When an event bus is configured publish an event each time a new port mapping
is updated. Publication is unconditional and occurs prior to calling any
callback that is registered. For now, the callback is still fired in a separate
goroutine as before -- later, those callbacks should become subscriptions to
the published event.
For now, the event type is defined as a new type here in the package. We will
want to move it to a more central package when there are subscribers. The event
wrapper is effectively a subset of the data exported by the internal mapping
interface, but on a concrete struct so the bus plumbing can inspect it.
Updates #15160
Change-Id: I951f212429ac791223af8d75b6eb39a0d2a0053a
Signed-off-by: M. J. Fromberger <fromberger@tailscale.com>
Previously, we would select the first WANIPConnection2 (and related)
client from the root device, without any additional checks. However,
some routers expose multiple UPnP devices in various states, and simply
picking the first available one can result in attempting to perform a
portmap with a device that isn't functional.
Instead, mimic what the miniupnpc code does, and prefer devices that are
(a) reporting as Connected, and (b) have a valid external IP address.
For our use-case, we additionally prefer devices that have an external
IP address that's a public address, to increase the likelihood that we
can obtain a direct connection from peers.
Finally, we split out fetching the root device (getUPnPRootDevice) from
selecting the best service within that root device (selectBestService),
and add some extensive tests for various UPnP server behaviours.
RELNOTE=Improve UPnP portmapping when multiple UPnP services exist
Updates #8364
Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@du.nham.ca>
Change-Id: I71795cd80be6214dfcef0fe83115a5e3fe4b8753
Will Norris
Andrew Dunham
Brad Fitzpatrick
M. J. Fromberger
Andrew Dunham