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>
Include the node's OS with network flow log information.
Refactor the JSON-length computation to be a bit more precise.
Updates tailscale/corp#33352Fixestailscale/corp#34030
Signed-off-by: Joe Tsai <joetsai@digital-static.net>
This rewrites the netlog package to support embedding node information in network flow logs.
Some bit of complexity comes in trying to pre-compute the expected size of the log message
after JSON serialization to ensure that we can respect maximum body limits in log uploading.
We also fix a bug in tstun, where we were recording the IP address after SNAT,
which was resulting in non-sensible connection flows being logged.
Updates tailscale/corp#33352
Signed-off-by: Joe Tsai <joetsai@digital-static.net>
The connstats package was an unnecessary layer of indirection.
It was seperated out of wgengine/netlog so that net/tstun and
wgengine/magicsock wouldn't need a depenedency on the concrete
implementation of network flow logging.
Instead, we simply register a callback for counting connections.
This PR does the bare minimum work to prepare tstun and magicsock
to only care about that callback.
A future PR will delete connstats and merge it into netlog.
Updates tailscale/corp#33352
Signed-off-by: Joe Tsai <joetsai@digital-static.net>
Remove CBOR representation since it was never used.
We should support CBOR in the future, but for remove it
for now so that it is less work to add more fields.
Also, rely on just omitzero for JSON now that it is supported in Go 1.24.
Updates tailscale/corp#33352
Signed-off-by: Joe Tsai <joetsai@digital-static.net>
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 Tailscale logging service has a hard limit on the maximum
log message size that can be accepted.
We want to ensure that netlog messages never exceed
this limit otherwise a client cannot transmit logs.
Move the goroutine for periodically dumping netlog messages
from wgengine/netlog to net/connstats.
This allows net/connstats to manage when it dumps messages,
either based on time or by size.
Updates tailscale/corp#8427
Signed-off-by: Joe Tsai <joetsai@digital-static.net>
There is a finite limit to the maximum message size that logtail can upload.
We need to make sure network logging messages remain under this size.
These constants allow us to compute the maximum number of ConnectionCounts
we can buffer before we must flush.
Signed-off-by: Joe Tsai <joetsai@digital-static.net>
The netlog.Message type is useful to depend on from other packages,
but doing so would transitively cause gvisor and other large packages
to be linked in.
Avoid this problem by moving all network logging types to a single package.
We also update staticcheck to take in:
003d277bcf
Signed-off-by: Joe Tsai <joetsai@digital-static.net>
Will Norris
Joe Tsai
Brad Fitzpatrick