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>
relayManager can now hand endpoint a relay epAddr for it to consider
as bestAddr.
endpoint and Conn disco ping/pong handling are now VNI-aware.
Updates tailscale/corp#27502
Updates tailscale/corp#29422
Signed-off-by: Jordan Whited <jordan@tailscale.com>
This commit adds a new type to magicsock, epAddr, which largely ends up
replacing netip.AddrPort in packet I/O paths throughout, enabling
Geneve encapsulation over UDP awareness.
The conn.ReceiveFunc for UDP has been revamped to fix and more clearly
distinguish the different classes of packets we expect to receive: naked
STUN binding messages, naked disco, naked WireGuard, Geneve-encapsulated
disco, and Geneve-encapsulated WireGuard.
Prior to this commit, STUN matching logic in the RX path could swallow
a naked WireGuard packet if the keypair index, which is randomly
generated, happened to overlap with a subset of the STUN magic cookie.
Updates tailscale/corp#27502
Updates tailscale/corp#29326
Signed-off-by: Jordan Whited <jordan@tailscale.com>
Just because we don't have known endpoints for a peer does not mean that
the peer should become unreachable. If we know the peers key, it should
be able to call us, then we can talk back via whatever path it called us
on. First step - don't drop the packet in this context.
Updates tailscale/corp#19106
Signed-off-by: James Tucker <james@tailscale.com>
In prep for incremental netmap update plumbing (#1909), make peerMap
also keyed by NodeID, as all the netmap node mutations passed around
later will be keyed by NodeID.
In the process, also:
* add envknob.InDevMode, as a signal that we can panic more aggressively
in unexpected cases.
* pull two moderately large blocks of code in Conn.SetNetworkMap out
into their own methods
* convert a few more sets from maps to set.Set
Updates #1909
Change-Id: I7acdd64452ba58e9d554140ee7a8760f9043f961
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
