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>
This is a small introduction of the eventbus into controlclient that
communicates with mainly ipnlocal. While ipnlocal is a complicated part
of the codebase, the subscribers here are from the perspective of
ipnlocal already called async.
Updates #15160
Signed-off-by: Claus Lensbøl <claus@tailscale.com>
In this PR, we add a generic views.ValuePointer type that can be used as a view for pointers
to basic types and struct types that do not require deep cloning and do not have corresponding
view types. Its Get/GetOk methods return stack-allocated shallow copies of the underlying value.
We then update the cmd/viewer codegen to produce getters that return either concrete views
when available or ValuePointer views when not, for pointer fields in generated view types.
This allows us to avoid unnecessary allocations compared to returning pointers to newly
allocated shallow copies.
Updates #14570
Signed-off-by: Nick Khyl <nickk@tailscale.com>
This is a follow-up to #7905 that adds two more linters and fixes the corresponding findings. As per the previous PR, this only flags things that are "obviously" wrong, and fixes the issues found.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@du.nham.ca>
Change-Id: I8739bdb7bc4f75666a7385a7a26d56ec13741b7c
We now handle the case where the NetworkMap.SelfNode has already expired
and do not return an expiry time in the past (which causes an ~infinite
loop of timers to fire).
Additionally, we now add an explicit check to ensure that the next
expiry time is never before the current local-to-the-system time, to
ensure that we don't end up in a similar situation due to clock skew.
Finally, we add more tests for this logic to ensure that we don't
regress on these edge cases.
Fixes#7193
Change-Id: Iaf8e3d83be1d133a7aab7f8d62939e508cc53f9c
Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@du.nham.ca>
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>
In order to be able to synthesize a new NetMap when a node expires, have
LocalBackend start a timer when receiving a new NetMap that fires
slightly after the next node expires. Additionally, move the logic that
updates expired nodes into LocalBackend so it runs on every netmap
(whether received from controlclient or self-triggered).
Updates #6932
Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@du.nham.ca>
Change-Id: I833390e16ad188983eac29eb34cc7574f555f2f3
Will Norris
Claus Lensbøl
Nick Khyl
Brad Fitzpatrick
Claire Wang
Andrew Dunham
Andrew Dunham