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>
Previously all tests shared their tailscale+tailscaled binaries in
system /tmp directories, which often leaked, and required TestMain to
clean up (which feature/taildrop didn't use).
This makes it use testing.T.TempDir for the binaries, but still only
builds them once and efficiently as possible depending on the OS
copies them around between each test's temp dir.
Updates #15812
Change-Id: I0e2585613f272c3d798a423b8ad1737f8916f527
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
I'm not saying it works, but it compiles.
Updates #5794
Change-Id: I2f3c99732e67fe57a05edb25b758d083417f083e
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 //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>
The existing code relied on the Go build cache to avoid
needless work when obtaining the tailscale binaries.
For non-obvious reasons, the binaries were getting re-linked
every time, which added 600ms or so on my machine to every test.
Instead, build the binaries exactly once, on demand.
This reduces the time to run 'go test -count=5' from 34s to 10s
on my machine.
Signed-off-by: Josh Bleecher Snyder <josh@tailscale.com>
The tests build fine on other Unix's, they just can't run there.
But there is already a t.Skip by default, so `go test` ends up
working fine elsewhere and checks the code compiles.
Signed-off-by: David Crawshaw <crawshaw@tailscale.com>
This uses a neat little tool to dump the output of DNS queries to
standard out. This is the first end-to-end test of DNS that runs against
actual linux systems. The /etc/resolv.conf test may look superflous,
however this will help for correlating system state if one of the DNS
tests fails.
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
Maisem Ali
Josh Bleecher Snyder
David Crawshaw
Christine Dodrill