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>
Baby steps. This permits building without much of gvisor, but not all of it.
Updates #17283
Change-Id: I8433146e259918cc901fe86b4ea29be22075b32c
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
This only saves ~32KB in the minimal linux/amd64 binary, but it's a
step towards permitting not depending on gvisor for small builds.
Updates #17283
Change-Id: Iae8da5e9465127de354dbcaf25e794a6832d891b
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Fixes#14492
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Change-Id: I6dc1068d34bbfa7477e7b7a56a4325b3868c92e1
Signed-off-by: Marc Paquette <marcphilippaquette@gmail.com>
In df6014f1d7 we removed build tag
gating preventing importation, which tripped a NetworkExtension limit
test in corp. This was a reversal of
25f0a3fc8f which actually made the
situation worse, hence the simplification.
This commit goes back to the strategy in
25f0a3fc8f, and gets us back under the
limit in my local testing. Admittedly, we don't fully understand
the effects of importing or excluding importation of this package,
and have seen mixed results, but this commit allows us to move forward
again.
Updates tailscale/corp#22125
Signed-off-by: Jordan Whited <jordan@tailscale.com>
In 2f27319baf we disabled GRO due to a
data race around concurrent calls to tstun.Wrapper.Write(). This commit
refactors GRO to be thread-safe, and re-enables it on Linux.
This refactor now carries a GRO type across tstun and netstack APIs
with a lifetime that is scoped to a single tstun.Wrapper.Write() call.
In 25f0a3fc8f we used build tags to
prevent importation of gVisor's GRO package on iOS as at the time we
believed it was contributing to additional memory usage on that
platform. It wasn't, so this commit simplifies and removes those
build tags.
Updates tailscale/corp#22353
Updates tailscale/corp#22125
Updates #6816
Signed-off-by: Jordan Whited <jordan@tailscale.com>
Will Norris
Brad Fitzpatrick
Marc Paquette
Jordan Whited