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 adds a new generic result type (motivated by golang/go#70084) to
try it out, and uses it in the new lineutil package (replacing the old
lineread package), changing that package to return iterators:
sometimes over []byte (when the input is all in memory), but sometimes
iterators over results of []byte, if errors might happen at runtime.
Updates #12912
Updates golang/go#70084
Change-Id: Iacdc1070e661b5fb163907b1e8b07ac7d51d3f83
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
We're using it in more and more places, and it's not really specific to
our use of Wireguard (and does more just link/interface monitoring).
Also removes the separate interface we had for it in sockstats -- it's
a small enough package (we already pull in all of its dependencies
via other paths) that it's not worth the extra complexity.
Updates #7621
Updates #7850
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>
Ignoring the events at this layer is the simpler path for right now, a
broader change should follow to suppress irrelevant change events in a
higher layer so as to avoid related problems with other monitoring paths
on other platforms. This approach may also carry a small risk that it
applies an at-most-once invariant low in the chain that could be assumed
otherwise higher in the code.
I adjusted the newAddrMessage type to include interface index rather
than a label, as labels are not always supplied, and in particular on my
test hosts they were consistently missing for ipv6 address messages.
I adjusted the newAddrMessage.Addr field to be populated from
Attributes.Address rather than Attributes.Local, as again for ipv6
.Local was always empty, and with ipv4 the .Address and .Local contained
the same contents in each of my test environments.
Update #4282
Signed-off-by: James Tucker <james@tailscale.com>
Will Norris
Brad Fitzpatrick
Mihai Parparita
James Tucker