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>
By default, Windows sets the SIO_UDP_CONNRESET and SIO_UDP_NETRESET
options on created UDP sockets. These behaviours make the UDP socket
ICMP-aware; when the system gets an ICMP message (e.g. an "ICMP Port
Unreachable" message, in the case of SIO_UDP_CONNRESET), it will cause
the underlying UDP socket to throw an error. Confusingly, this can occur
even on reads, if the same UDP socket is used to write a packet that
triggers this response.
The Go runtime disabled the SIO_UDP_CONNRESET behavior in 3114bd6, but
did not change SIO_UDP_NETRESET–probably because that socket option
isn't documented particularly well.
Various other networking code seem to disable this behaviour, such as
the Godot game engine (godotengine/godot#22332) and the Eclipse TCF
agent (link below). Others appear to work around this by ignoring the
error returned (anacrolix/dht#16, among others).
For now, until it's clear whether this ends up in the upstream Go
implementation or not, let's also disable the SIO_UDP_NETRESET in a
similar manner to SIO_UDP_CONNRESET.
Eclipse TCF agent: https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipse/tcf/tcf.agent/-/blob/master/agent/tcf/framework/mdep.c
Updates #10976
Updates golang/go#68614
Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@du.nham.ca>
Change-Id: I70a2f19855f8dec1bfb82e63f6d14fc4a22ed5c3
Will Norris
Jordan Whited
Andrew Dunham