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 separate builds for DSM7.2 for synology so that we can encode
separate versioning information in the INFO file to distinguish between
the two.
Fixes https://github.com/tailscale/corp/issues/22908
Signed-off-by: Mario Minardi <mario@tailscale.com>
Fixestailscale/corp#19979
A build with version number 275 was uploaded to the App Store without bumping OSS first. The presence of that build is causing any 274.* build to be rejected. To address this, added -1 to the year component, which means new builds will use the 275.* prefix.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Gottardo <andrea@gottardo.me>
Synology requires version numbers are within int32 range. This
change updates the version logic to keep things closer within the
range, and errors on building when the range is exceeded.
Updates #cleanup
Signed-off-by: Sonia Appasamy <sonia@tailscale.com>
This is useful to build local binaries with custom versions to test
version-specific logic (like updates).
Updates https://github.com/tailscale/corp/issues/16703
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lytvynov <awly@tailscale.com>
I thought our versioning scheme would make go.mod include a commit hash
even on stable builds. I was wrong. Fortunately, the rest of this code
wants anything that 'git rev-parse' understands (to convert it into a full
git hash), and tags qualify.
Signed-off-by: David Anderson <danderson@tailscale.com>
With this change, you can collect version info from either a git
checkout of the tailscale.com Go module (this repo), or a git
checkout of a repo that imports the tailscale.com Go module.
Signed-off-by: David Anderson <danderson@tailscale.com>
Brad Fitzpatrick
Will Norris
Mario Minardi
Andrea Gottardo
Sonia Appasamy
Andrew Lytvynov
David Anderson