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>
This gets close to all of the remaining ones.
Updates #12912
Change-Id: I9c672bbed2654a6c5cab31e0cbece6c107d8c6fa
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
For pprof cosmetic/confusion reasons more than performance, but it
might have tiny speed benefit.
Updates #12486
Change-Id: I40e03714f3afa3a7e7f5e1fa99b81c7e889b91b6
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
So profiles show more useful names than just func1, func2, func3, etc.
There will still be func1 on them all, but the symbol before will say
what the lookup type is.
Updates #12486
Change-Id: I910b024a7861394eb83d07f5a899eae338cb1f22
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
This moves NewContainsIPFunc from tsaddr to new ipset package.
And wgengine/filter types gets split into wgengine/filter/filtertype,
so netmap (and thus the CLI, etc) doesn't need to bring in ipset,
bart, etc.
Then add a test making sure the CLI deps don't regress.
Updates #1278
Change-Id: Ia246d6d9502bbefbdeacc4aef1bed9c8b24f54d5
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Will Norris
Brad Fitzpatrick
Maisem Ali