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>
Now that Go 1.20 is released, multierr.Error can implement
Unwrap() []error
Updates #7123
Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@du.nham.ca>
Change-Id: Ic28c2579de6799801836c447afbca8cdcba732cf
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>
Consider the following pattern:
err1 := foo()
err2 := bar()
err3 := baz()
return multierr.New(err1, err2, err3)
If err1, err2, and err3 are all nil, then multierr.New should not allocate.
Thus, modify the logic of New to count the number of distinct error values
and allocate the exactly needed slice. This also speeds up non-empty error
situation since repeatedly growing with append is slow.
Performance:
name old time/op new time/op delta
Empty-24 41.8ns ± 2% 6.4ns ± 1% -84.73% (p=0.000 n=10+10)
NonEmpty-24 120ns ± 3% 69ns ± 1% -42.01% (p=0.000 n=9+10)
name old alloc/op new alloc/op delta
Empty-24 64.0B ± 0% 0.0B -100.00% (p=0.000 n=10+10)
NonEmpty-24 168B ± 0% 88B ± 0% -47.62% (p=0.000 n=10+10)
name old allocs/op new allocs/op delta
Empty-24 1.00 ± 0% 0.00 -100.00% (p=0.000 n=10+10)
NonEmpty-24 3.00 ± 0% 2.00 ± 0% -33.33% (p=0.000 n=10+10)
Signed-off-by: Joe Tsai <joetsai@digital-static.net>
Errors in Go are no longer viewed as a linear chain, but a tree.
See golang/go#53435.
Add a Range function that iterates through an error
in a pre-order, depth-first order.
This matches the iteration order of errors.As in Go 1.20.
This adds the logic (but currently commented out) for having
Error implement the multi-error version of Unwrap in Go 1.20.
It is commented out currently since it causes "go vet"
to complain about having the "wrong" signature.
Signed-off-by: Joe Tsai <joetsai@digital-static.net>
github.com/go-multierror/multierror served us well.
But we need a few feature from it (implement Is),
and it's not worth maintaining a fork of such a small module.
Instead, I did a clean room implementation inspired by its API.
Signed-off-by: Josh Bleecher Snyder <josh@tailscale.com>
Will Norris
Brad Fitzpatrick
Andrew Dunham
Joe Tsai
Josh Bleecher Snyder