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>
In prep for updating to new staticcheck required for Go 1.23.
Updates #12912
Change-Id: If77892a023b79c6fa798f936fc80428fd4ce0673
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@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>
The hujson package transition to just being a pure AST
parser and formatter for HuJSON and not an unmarshaler.
Thus, parse HuJSON as such, convert it to JSON,
and then use the standard JSON unmarshaler.
Signed-off-by: Joe Tsai <joetsai@digital-static.net>
I would like to do some more customized integration tests in the future,
(specifically, bringing up a mitm proxy and testing tailscaled through that)
so hoping to bring back the nixos wiring to support that.
Signed-off-by: Tom DNetto <tom@tailscale.com>
This prevents centos tests from timing out because sshd does reverse dns
lookups on every session being established instead of doing it once on
the acutal ssh connection being established. This is odd. Appending this
to the sshd config and restarting it seems to fix it though.
Signed-off-by: Christine Dodrill <xe@tailscale.com>
This moves the distribution definitions into a maintainable hujson file
instead of just existing as constants in `distros.go`. Comments are
maintained from the inline definitions.
This uses jennifer[1] for hygenic source tree creation. This allows us
to generate a unique top-level test for each VM run. This should
hopefully help make the output of `go test` easier to read.
This also separates each test out into its own top-level test so that we
can better track the time that each distro takes. I really wish there
was a way to have the `test_codegen.go` file _always_ run as a part of
the compile process instead of having to rely on people remembering to
run `go generate`, but I am limited by my tools.
This will let us remove the `-distro-regex` flag and use `go test -run`
to pick which distros are run.
Signed-off-by: Christine Dodrill <xe@tailscale.com>
My spatial memory functions poorly with large files and the vms_test.go
file recently surpassed the point where it functions adequately. This
patch splits up vms_test.go into more files to make my spatial memory
function like I need it to.
Signed-off-by: Christine Dodrill <xe@tailscale.com>
Will Norris
Brad Fitzpatrick
Joe Tsai
Tom DNetto
Christine Dodrill