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 Android, we are prompting the user to select a Taildrop directory when they first receive a Taildrop: we block writes on Taildrop dir selection. This means that we cannot use Dir inside managerOptions, since the http request would not get the new Taildrop extension. This PR removes, in the Android case, the reliance on m.opts.Dir, and instead has FileOps hold the correct directory.
This expands FileOps to be the Taildrop interface for all file system operations.
Updates tailscale/corp#29211
Signed-off-by: kari-ts <kari@tailscale.com>
restore tstest
Create FileOps for calling platform-specific file operations such as SAF APIs in Taildrop
Update taildrop.PutFile to support both traditional and SAF modes
Updates tailscale/tailscale#15263
Signed-off-by: kari-ts <kari@tailscale.com>
This adds a feature/taildrop package, a ts_omit_taildrop build tag,
and starts moving code to feature/taildrop. In some cases, code
remains where it was but is now behind a build tag. Future changes
will move code to an extension and out of LocalBackend, etc.
Updates #12614
Change-Id: Idf96c61144d1a5f707039ceb2ff59c99f5c1642f
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Removes the avoidFinalRename logic and all associated code as it is no longer required by the Apple clients.
Enables resume logic to be usable for Apple clients.
Fixestailscale/corp#14772
Signed-off-by: Rhea Ghosh <rhea@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>
This is step 1 of de-special-casing of Windows and letting the
LocalAPI HTTP server start serving immediately, even while the rest of
the world (notably the Engine and its TUN device) are being created,
which can take a few to dozens of seconds on Windows.
With this change, the ipnserver.New function changes to not take an
Engine and to return immediately, not returning an error, and let its
Run run immediately. If its ServeHTTP is called when it doesn't yet
have a LocalBackend, it returns an error. A TODO in there shows where
a future handler will serve status before an engine is available.
Future changes will:
* delete a bunch of tailscaled_windows.go code and use this new API
* add the ipnserver.Server ServerHTTP handler to await the engine
being available
* use that handler in the Windows GUI client
Updates #6522
Change-Id: Iae94e68c235e850b112a72ea24ad0e0959b568ee
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
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Will Norris
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