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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
//go:build go1.19
// Package tailscale contains a Go client for the Tailscale control plane API.
//
// This package is only intended for internal and transitional use.
//
// Deprecated: the official control plane client is available at
// [tailscale.com/client/tailscale/v2].
package tailscale
import (
"encoding/json"
"errors"
"fmt"
"io"
"net/http"
"net/url"
"path"
)
// I_Acknowledge_This_API_Is_Unstable must be set true to use this package
// for now. This package is being replaced by [tailscale.com/client/tailscale/v2].
var I_Acknowledge_This_API_Is_Unstable = false
// TODO: use url.PathEscape() for deviceID and tailnets when constructing requests.
const defaultAPIBase = "https://api.tailscale.com"
// maxSize is the maximum read size (10MB) of responses from the server.
const maxReadSize = 10 << 20
// Client makes API calls to the Tailscale control plane API server.
//
// Use [NewClient] to instantiate one. Exported fields should be set before
// the client is used and not changed thereafter.
//
// Deprecated: use [tailscale.com/client/tailscale/v2] instead.
type Client struct {
// tailnet is the globally unique identifier for a Tailscale network, such
// as "example.com" or "user@gmail.com".
tailnet string
// auth is the authentication method to use for this client.
// nil means none, which generally won't work, but won't crash.
auth AuthMethod
// BaseURL optionally specifies an alternate API server to use.
// If empty, "https://api.tailscale.com" is used.
BaseURL string
// HTTPClient optionally specifies an alternate HTTP client to use.
// If nil, [http.DefaultClient] is used.
HTTPClient *http.Client
// UserAgent optionally specifies an alternate User-Agent header
UserAgent string
}
func (c *Client) httpClient() *http.Client {
if c.HTTPClient != nil {
return c.HTTPClient
}
return http.DefaultClient
}
// BuildURL builds a url to http(s)://<apiserver>/api/v2/<slash-separated-pathElements>
// using the given pathElements. It url escapes each path element, so the
// caller doesn't need to worry about that. The last item of pathElements can
// be of type url.Values to add a query string to the URL.
//
// For example, BuildURL(devices, 5) with the default server URL would result in
// https://api.tailscale.com/api/v2/devices/5.
func (c *Client) BuildURL(pathElements ...any) string {
elem := make([]string, 1, len(pathElements)+1)
elem[0] = "/api/v2"
var query string
for i, pathElement := range pathElements {
if uv, ok := pathElement.(url.Values); ok && i == len(pathElements)-1 {
query = uv.Encode()
} else {
elem = append(elem, url.PathEscape(fmt.Sprint(pathElement)))
}
}
url := c.baseURL() + path.Join(elem...)
if query != "" {
url += "?" + query
}
return url
}
// BuildTailnetURL builds a url to http(s)://<apiserver>/api/v2/tailnet/<tailnet>/<slash-separated-pathElements>
// using the given pathElements. It url escapes each path element, so the
// caller doesn't need to worry about that. The last item of pathElements can
// be of type url.Values to add a query string to the URL.
//
// For example, BuildTailnetURL(policy, validate) with the default server URL and a tailnet of "example.com"
// would result in https://api.tailscale.com/api/v2/tailnet/example.com/policy/validate.
func (c *Client) BuildTailnetURL(pathElements ...any) string {
allElements := make([]any, 2, len(pathElements)+2)
allElements[0] = "tailnet"
allElements[1] = c.tailnet
allElements = append(allElements, pathElements...)
return c.BuildURL(allElements...)
}
func (c *Client) baseURL() string {
if c.BaseURL != "" {
return c.BaseURL
}
return defaultAPIBase
}
// AuthMethod is the interface for API authentication methods.
//
// Most users will use AuthKey.
type AuthMethod interface {
modifyRequest(req *http.Request)
}
// APIKey is an [AuthMethod] for [NewClient] that authenticates requests
// using an authkey.
type APIKey string
func (ak APIKey) modifyRequest(req *http.Request) {
req.SetBasicAuth(string(ak), "")
}
func (c *Client) setAuth(r *http.Request) {
if c.auth != nil {
c.auth.modifyRequest(r)
}
}
// NewClient is a convenience method for instantiating a new [Client].
//
// tailnet is the globally unique identifier for a Tailscale network, such
// as "example.com" or "user@gmail.com".
// If httpClient is nil, then [http.DefaultClient] is used.
// "api.tailscale.com" is set as the BaseURL for the returned client
// and can be changed manually by the user.
//
// Deprecated: use [tailscale.com/client/tailscale/v2] instead.
func NewClient(tailnet string, auth AuthMethod) *Client {
return &Client{
tailnet: tailnet,
auth: auth,
UserAgent: "tailscale-client-oss",
}
}
func (c *Client) Tailnet() string { return c.tailnet }
// Do sends a raw HTTP request, after adding any authentication headers.
func (c *Client) Do(req *http.Request) (*http.Response, error) {
if !I_Acknowledge_This_API_Is_Unstable {
return nil, errors.New("use of Client without setting I_Acknowledge_This_API_Is_Unstable")
}
c.setAuth(req)
if c.UserAgent != "" {
req.Header.Set("User-Agent", c.UserAgent)
}
return c.httpClient().Do(req)
}
// sendRequest add the authentication key to the request and sends it. It
// receives the response and reads up to 10MB of it.
func (c *Client) sendRequest(req *http.Request) ([]byte, *http.Response, error) {
resp, err := c.Do(req)
if err != nil {
return nil, resp, err
}
defer resp.Body.Close()
// Read response. Limit the response to 10MB.
body := io.LimitReader(resp.Body, maxReadSize+1)
b, err := io.ReadAll(body)
if len(b) > maxReadSize {
err = errors.New("API response too large")
}
return b, resp, err
}
// ErrResponse is the HTTP error returned by the Tailscale server.
type ErrResponse struct {
Status int
Message string
}
func (e ErrResponse) Error() string {
return fmt.Sprintf("Status: %d, Message: %q", e.Status, e.Message)
}
// HandleErrorResponse decodes the error message from the server and returns
// an [ErrResponse] from it.
//
// Deprecated: use [tailscale.com/client/tailscale/v2] instead.
func HandleErrorResponse(b []byte, resp *http.Response) error {
var errResp ErrResponse
if err := json.Unmarshal(b, &errResp); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("json.Unmarshal %q: %w", b, err)
}
errResp.Status = resp.StatusCode
return errResp
}