6 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Brad Fitzpatrick
371d6369cd gokrazy: use monorepo for gokrazy appliance builds (monogok)
This switches our gokrazy builds to use a new variant of cmd/gok called
opinionated about using monorepos: https://github.com/bradfitz/monogok

And with that, we can get rid of all the go.mod files and builddir forests
under gokrazy/**.

Updates #13038
Updates gokrazy/gokrazy#361

Change-Id: I9f18fbe59b8792286abc1e563d686ea9472c622d
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
2026-02-13 16:19:14 -08:00
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'

Updates #cleanup

Change-Id: Ia101a4a3005adb9118051b3416f5a64a4a45987d
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00
Brad Fitzpatrick
5eafce7e25 gokrazy/natlab: update gokrazy, wire up natlab tests to GitHub CI
Updates #13038

Change-Id: I610f9076816f44d59c0ca405a1b4f5eb4c6c0594
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
2025-03-04 18:57:29 -08:00
Brad Fitzpatrick
20cf48b8dd gokrazy{,/natlabapp.arm64}: start adding arm64 appliance support
Both for Raspberry Pis, and for running natlab tests faster on Apple
Silicon Macs without emulating x86.

Not fully wired up yet.

Updates #1866
Updates #13038

Change-Id: I1552bf107069308f325f640773cc881ed735b5ab
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
2024-09-03 09:24:15 -07:00
Brad Fitzpatrick
02581b1603 gokrazy,tstest/integration/nat: add Gokrazy appliance just for natlab
... rather than abusing the generic tsapp.

Per discussion in https://github.com/gokrazy/gokrazy/pull/275

It also means we can remove stuff we don't need, like ntp or randomd.

Updates #13038

Change-Id: Iccf579c354bd3b5025d05fa1128e32f1d5bde4e4
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
2024-08-13 15:26:12 -07:00
Brad Fitzpatrick
e84751217a gokrazy: add prototype Tailscale appliance, build tooling, docs
Updates #1866

Change-Id: I546316cb833bf2919e0d6f55cdc9951f375f165b
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
2024-06-03 15:01:19 -07:00