2 Commits (2743e0b681128380f87ab0c88b43dc35ab630917)

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Will Norris	3ec5be3f51	all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it ... 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 --- 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>	4 months ago
Brad Fitzpatrick	f1ded84454	cmd/tailscaled: add disabled debug file to force reflect for binary size experiments ... This adds a file that's not compiled by default that exists just to make it easier to do binary size checks, probing what a binary would be like if it included reflect methods (as used by html/template, etc). As an example, once tailscaled uses reflect.Type.MethodByName(non-const-string) anywhere, the build jumps up by 14.5 MB: $ GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 ./tool/go build -tags=ts_include_cli,ts_omit_webclient,ts_omit_systray,ts_omit_debugeventbus -o before ./cmd/tailscaled $ GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 ./tool/go build -tags=ts_include_cli,ts_omit_webclient,ts_omit_systray,ts_omit_debugeventbus,ts_debug_forcereflect -o after ./cmd/tailscaled $ ls -l before after -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 bradfitz staff 41011861 Sep 9 07:28 before -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 bradfitz staff 55610948 Sep 9 07:29 after This is particularly pronounced with large deps like the AWS SDK. If you compare using ts_omit_aws: -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 bradfitz staff 38284771 Sep 9 07:40 no-aws-no-reflect -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 bradfitz staff 45546491 Sep 9 07:41 no-aws-with-reflect That means adding AWS to a non-reflect binary adds 2.7 MB but adding AWS to a reflect binary adds 10 MB. Updates #17063 Updates #12614 Change-Id: I18e9b77c9cf33565ce5bba65ac5584fa9433f7fb Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>	8 months ago