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 allows sending logs from the "logpolicy" package (and associated
callees) to something other than the log package. The behaviour for
tailscaled remains the same, passing in log.Printf
Updates #8249
Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@du.nham.ca>
Change-Id: Ie1d43b75fa7281933d9225bffd388462c08a5f31
On some platforms (notably macOS and iOS) we look up the default
interface to bind outgoing connections to. This is both duplicated
work and results in logspam when the default interface is not available
(i.e. when a phone has no connectivity, we log an error and thus cause
more things that we will try to upload and fail).
Fixed by passing around a netmon.Monitor to more places, so that we can
use its cached interface state.
Fixes#7850
Updates #7621
Signed-off-by: Mihai Parparita <mihai@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>
Now that everything's just HTTP, there's no longer a need to have a
header-sniffing net.Conn wraper that dispatches which route to
take. Refactor to just use an http.Server earlier instead.
Updates #6417
Change-Id: I12a2054db4e56f48660c46f81233db224fdc77cb
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
The //go:build syntax was introduced in Go 1.17:
https://go.dev/doc/go1.17#build-lines
gofmt has kept the +build and go:build lines in sync since
then, but enough time has passed. Time to remove them.
Done with:
perl -i -npe 's,^// \+build.*\n,,' $(git grep -l -F '+build')
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Broken by 3dedcd1640 but we don't have CI coverage yet.
Updates #3157
Change-Id: Ie8e95ebd36264887fdeed16fc9f25a857d48124b
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
This is for use by the Windows GUI client to log via when an
exit node is in use, so the logs don't go out via the exit node and
instead go directly, like tailscaled's. The dialer tried to do that
in the unprivileged GUI by binding to a specific interface, but the
"Internet Kill Switch" installed by tailscaled for exit nodes
precludes that from working and instead the GUI fails to dial out.
So, go through tailscaled (with a CONNECT request) instead.
Fixestailscale/corp#3169
Change-Id: I17a8efdc1d4b8fed53a29d1c19995592b651b215
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Will Norris
Brad Fitzpatrick
Joe Tsai
Matt Layher
Andrew Dunham
Mihai Parparita
Maisem Ali