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>
Explain that this file stays forked from coder/websocket until we can
depend on an upstream release for the helper.
Updates #cleanup
Signed-off-by: kscooo <kscowork@gmail.com>
Coder has just adopted nhooyr/websocket which unfortunately changes the import path.
`github.com/coder/coder` imports `tailscale.com/net/wsconn` which was still pointing
to `nhooyr.io/websocket`, but this change updates it.
See https://coder.com/blog/websocket
Updates #13154
Change-Id: I3dec6512472b14eae337ae22c5bcc1e3758888d5
Signed-off-by: Kyle Carberry <kyle@carberry.com>
This turns the checklocks workflow into a real check, and adds
annotations to a few basic packages as a starting point.
Updates #12625
Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@du.nham.ca>
Change-Id: I2b0185bae05a843b5257980fc6bde732b1bdd93f
This makes wsconn.Conns somewhat present reasonably when they are
the client of an http.Request, rather than just put a placeholder
in that field.
Updates tailscale/corp#13777
Signed-off-by: David Anderson <danderson@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>
We removed it in #4806 in favor of the built-in functionality from the
nhooyr.io/websocket package. However, it has an issue with deadlines
that has not been fixed yet (see nhooyr/websocket#350). Temporarily
go back to using a custom wrapper (using the fix from our fork) so that
derpers will stop closing connections too aggressively.
Updates #5921
Signed-off-by: Mihai Parparita <mihai@tailscale.com>
We can't do Noise-over-HTTP in Wasm/JS (because we don't have bidirectional
communication), but we should be able to do it over WebSockets. Reuses
derp WebSocket support that allows us to turn a WebSocket connection
into a net.Conn.
Updates #3157
Signed-off-by: Mihai Parparita <mihai@tailscale.com>
Will Norris
Brad Fitzpatrick
kscooo
Kyle Carberry
Andrew Dunham
David Anderson
Mihai Parparita