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>
Still behind the same ts_omit_tap build tag.
See #14738 for background on the pattern.
Updates #12614
Change-Id: I03fb3d2bf137111e727415bd8e713d8568156ecc
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Few changes to resolve TODOs in the code:
- Instead of using a hardcoded IP, get it from the netmap.
- Use 100.100.100.100 as the gateway IP
- Use the /10 CGNAT range instead of a random /24
Updates #2589
Signed-off-by: Maisem Ali <maisem@tailscale.com>
It had bit-rotted likely during the transition to vector io in
76389d8baf. Tested on Ubuntu 24.04
by creating a netns and doing the DHCP dance to get an IP.
Updates #2589
Signed-off-by: Maisem Ali <maisem@tailscale.com>
This updates all source files to use a new standard header for copyright
and license declaration. Notably, copyright no longer includes a date,
and we now use the standard SPDX-License-Identifier header.
This commit was done almost entirely mechanically with perl, and then
some minimal manual fixes.
Updates #6865
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
This is temporary while we work to upstream performance work in
https://github.com/WireGuard/wireguard-go/pull/64. A replace directive
is less ideal as it breaks dependent code without duplication of the
directive.
Signed-off-by: Jordan Whited <jordan@tailscale.com>
This commit updates the wireguard-go dependency and implements the
necessary changes to the tun.Device and conn.Bind implementations to
support passing vectors of packets in tailscaled. This significantly
improves throughput performance on Linux.
Updates #414
Signed-off-by: Jordan Whited <jordan@tailscale.com>
Signed-off-by: James Tucker <james@tailscale.com>
Co-authored-by: James Tucker <james@tailscale.com>
Now that Go 1.17 has module graph pruning
(https://go.dev/doc/go1.17#go-command), we should be able to use
upstream netstack without breaking our private repo's build
that then depends on the tailscale.com Go module.
This is that experiment.
Updates #1518 (the original bug to break out netstack to own module)
Updates #2642 (this updates netstack, but doesn't remove workaround)
Change-Id: I27a252c74a517053462e5250db09f379de8ac8ff
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Still very much a prototype (hard-coded IPs, etc) but should be
non-invasive enough to submit at this point and iterate from here.
Updates #2589
Co-Author: David Crawshaw <crawshaw@tailscale.com>
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Will Norris
Brad Fitzpatrick
Maisem Ali
Andrea Barisani
andig
Jordan Whited
Andrew Dunham
Matt Layher