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Will Norris 3ec5be3f51 all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it
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
---

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'

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Change-Id: Ia101a4a3005adb9118051b3416f5a64a4a45987d
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00

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// Copyright (c) Tailscale Inc & contributors
// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
package key
import (
"crypto/subtle"
"encoding/hex"
"encoding/json"
"errors"
"fmt"
"strings"
"go4.org/mem"
"tailscale.com/types/structs"
)
var ErrInvalidMeshKey = errors.New("invalid mesh key")
// DERPMesh is a mesh key, used for inter-DERP-node communication and for
// privileged DERP clients.
type DERPMesh struct {
_ structs.Incomparable // == isn't constant-time
k [32]byte // 64-digit hexadecimal numbers fit in 32 bytes
}
// MarshalJSON implements the [encoding/json.Marshaler] interface.
func (k DERPMesh) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
return json.Marshal(k.String())
}
// UnmarshalJSON implements the [encoding/json.Unmarshaler] interface.
func (k *DERPMesh) UnmarshalJSON(data []byte) error {
var s string
json.Unmarshal(data, &s)
if hex.DecodedLen(len(s)) != len(k.k) {
return fmt.Errorf("types/key/derp: cannot unmarshal, incorrect size mesh key len: %d, must be %d, %w", hex.DecodedLen(len(s)), len(k.k), ErrInvalidMeshKey)
}
_, err := hex.Decode(k.k[:], []byte(s))
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("types/key/derp: cannot unmarshal, invalid mesh key: %w", err)
}
return nil
}
// DERPMeshFromRaw32 parses a 32-byte raw value as a DERP mesh key.
func DERPMeshFromRaw32(raw mem.RO) DERPMesh {
if raw.Len() != 32 {
panic("input has wrong size")
}
var ret DERPMesh
raw.Copy(ret.k[:])
return ret
}
// ParseDERPMesh parses a DERP mesh key from a string.
// This function trims whitespace around the string.
// If the key is not a 64-digit hexadecimal number, ErrInvalidMeshKey is returned.
func ParseDERPMesh(key string) (DERPMesh, error) {
key = strings.TrimSpace(key)
if len(key) != 64 {
return DERPMesh{}, fmt.Errorf("%w: must be 64-digit hexadecimal number", ErrInvalidMeshKey)
}
decoded, err := hex.DecodeString(key)
if err != nil {
return DERPMesh{}, fmt.Errorf("%w: %v", ErrInvalidMeshKey, err)
}
return DERPMeshFromRaw32(mem.B(decoded)), nil
}
// IsZero reports whether k is the zero value.
func (k DERPMesh) IsZero() bool {
return k.Equal(DERPMesh{})
}
// Equal reports whether k and other are the same key.
func (k DERPMesh) Equal(other DERPMesh) bool {
// Compare mesh keys in constant time to prevent timing attacks.
// Since mesh keys are a fixed length, we dont need to be concerned
// about timing attacks on client mesh keys that are the wrong length.
// See https://github.com/tailscale/corp/issues/28720
return subtle.ConstantTimeCompare(k.k[:], other.k[:]) == 1
}
// String returns k as a hex-encoded 64-digit number.
func (k DERPMesh) String() string {
return hex.EncodeToString(k.k[:])
}