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 permits other programs (in other repos) to conditionally
import ipn/store/awsstore and/or ipn/store/kubestore and have them
register themselves, rather than feature/condregister doing it.
Updates tailscale/corp#32922
Change-Id: I2936229ce37fd2acf9be5bf5254d4a262d090ec1
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Implements a KMS input for AWS parameter to support encrypting Tailscale
state
Fixes#14765
Change-Id: I39c0fae4bfd60a9aec17c5ea6a61d0b57143d4ba
Co-authored-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Briggs <lee@leebriggs.co.uk>
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>
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>
Also move KubeStore and MemStore into their own package.
RELNOTE: tsnet now supports providing a custom ipn.StateStore.
Signed-off-by: Maisem Ali <maisem@tailscale.com>
From https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/pull/1919 with
edits by bradfitz@.
This change introduces a new storage provider for the state file. It
allows users to leverage AWS SSM parameter store natively within
tailscaled, like:
$ tailscaled --state=arn:aws:ssm:eu-west-1:123456789:parameter/foo
Known limitations:
- it is not currently possible to specific a custom KMS key ID
RELNOTE=tailscaled on Linux supports using AWS SSM for state
Edits-By: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Signed-off-by: Maxime VISONNEAU <maxime.visonneau@gmail.com>
Will Norris
Brad Fitzpatrick
Lee Briggs
Maisem Ali
nicksherron
Maxime VISONNEAU