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>
For people who can't use LetsEncrypt because it's banned.
Per https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/11776#issuecomment-2520955317
This does two things:
1) if you run derper with --certmode=manual and --hostname=$IP_ADDRESS
we previously permitted, but now we also:
* auto-generate the self-signed cert for you if it doesn't yet exist on disk
* print out the derpmap configuration you need to use that
self-signed cert
2) teaches derp/derphttp's derp dialer to verify the signature of
self-signed TLS certs, if so declared in the existing
DERPNode.CertName field, which previously existed for domain fronting,
separating out the dial hostname from how certs are validates,
so it's not overloaded much; that's what it was meant for.
Fixes#11776
Change-Id: Ie72d12f209416bb7e8325fe0838cd2c66342c5cf
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
So derpers can check an external URL for whether to permit access
to a certain public key.
Updates tailscale/corp#17693
Change-Id: I8594de58f54a08be3e2dbef8bcd1ff9b728ab297
Co-authored-by: Maisem Ali <maisem@tailscale.com>
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
This allows providing additional information to the client about how to
select a home DERP region, such as preferring a given DERP region over
all others.
Updates #8603
Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@du.nham.ca>
Change-Id: I7c4a270f31d8585112fab5408799ffba5b75266f
A follow-up PR will start using this field after we set it in our
production DERPMap.
Updates #7925
Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@du.nham.ca>
Change-Id: Idb41b79e6055dddb8944f79d91ad4a186ace98c7
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 DERPTestPort int meant two things before: which port to use, and
whether to disable TLS verification. Users would like to set the port
without disabling TLS, so break it into two options.
Updates #1264
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
This adds a flag to derp maps which specifies that default Tailscale DERP servers should not be
used. If true and there are entries in this map, it indicates that the entries in this map
should take precedent and not hit any of tailscale's DERP servers.
This change is backwards compatible, as the default behavior should be false.
Updates #1264
Signed-off-by: julianknodt <julianknodt@gmail.com>
So a region can be used if needed, but won't be STUN-probed or used as
its home.
This gives us another possible debugging mechanism for #1310, or can
be used as a short-term measure against DERP flip-flops for people
equidistant between regions if our hysteresis still isn't good enough.
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
We're beginning to reference DERP region names in the admin UI, so it's
best to consolidate this information in our DERP map.
Signed-off-by: Ross Zurowski <ross@rosszurowski.com>
Instead of hard-coding the DERP map (except for cmd/tailscale netcheck
for now), get it from the control server at runtime.
And make the DERP map support multiple nodes per region with clients
picking the first one that's available. (The server will balance the
order presented to clients for load balancing)
This deletes the stunner package, merging it into the netcheck package
instead, to minimize all the config hooks that would've been
required.
Also fix some test flakes & races.
Fixes#387 (Don't hard-code the DERP map)
Updates #388 (Add DERP region support)
Fixes#399 (wgengine: flaky tests)
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Will Norris
Brad Fitzpatrick
Claire Wang
Andrew Dunham
julianknodt
Ross Zurowski