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>
The goal is to move more network state accessors to netmon.Monitor
where they can be cheaper/cached. But first (this change and others)
we need to make sure the one netmon.Monitor is plumbed everywhere.
Some notable bits:
* tsdial.NewDialer is added, taking a now-required netmon
* because a tsdial.Dialer always has a netmon, anything taking both
a Dialer and a NetMon is now redundant; take only the Dialer and
get the NetMon from that if/when needed.
* netmon.NewStatic is added, primarily for tests
Updates tailscale/corp#10910
Updates tailscale/corp#18960
Updates #7967
Updates #3299
Change-Id: I877f9cb87618c4eb037cee098241d18da9c01691
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Netcheck no longer performs I/O itself, instead it makes requests via
SendPacket and expects users to route reply traffic to
ReceiveSTUNPacket.
Netcheck gains a Standalone function that stands up sockets and
goroutines to implement I/O when used in a standalone fashion.
Magicsock now unconditionally routes STUN traffic to the netcheck.Client
that it hosts, and plumbs the send packet sink.
The CLI is updated to make use of the Standalone mode.
Fixes#8723
Signed-off-by: James Tucker <james@tailscale.com>
Will Norris
Brad Fitzpatrick
James Tucker