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>
Add the golang-image-ico package, which is an incredibly small package
to handle the ICO container format with PNG inside. Some profile photos
look quite pixelated when displayed at this size, but it's better than
nothing, and any Windows support is just a bonus anyway.
Updates #1708
Change-Id: Ia101a4a3005adb9118051b3416f5a64a4a45987d
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
Refactor code to set app icon and title as part of rebuild, rather than
separately in eventLoop. This fixes several cases where they weren't
getting updated properly. This change also makes use of the new exit
node icons.
Updates #1708
Change-Id: Ia101a4a3005adb9118051b3416f5a64a4a45987d
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
restructure tsLogo to allow setting a mask to be used when drawing the
logo dots, as well as add an overlay icon, such as the arrow when
connected to an exit node.
The icon is still renders as white on black, but this change also
prepare for doing a black on white version, as well a fully transparent
icon. I don't know if we can consistently determine which to use, so
this just keeps the single icon for now.
Updates #1708
Change-Id: Ia101a4a3005adb9118051b3416f5a64a4a45987d
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
Some notification managers crop the application icon to a circle, so
ensure we have enough padding to account for that.
Updates #1708
Change-Id: Ia101a4a3005adb9118051b3416f5a64a4a45987d
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
This adds a systray app for linux, similar to the apps for macOS and
windows. There are already a number of community-developed systray apps,
but most of them are either long abandoned, are built for a specific
desktop environment, or simply wrap the tailscale CLI.
This uses fyne.io/systray (a fork of github.com/getlantern/systray)
which uses newer D-Bus specifications to render the tray icon and menu.
This results in a pretty broad support for modern desktop environments.
This initial commit lacks a number of features like profile switching,
device listing, and exit node selection. This is really focused on the
application structure, the interaction with LocalAPI, and some system
integration pieces like the app icon, notifications, and the clipboard.
Updates #1708
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
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