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>
In preparation for exposing its configuration via ipn.ConfigVAlpha,
change {Masked}Prefs.RelayServerPort from *int to *uint16. This takes a
defensive stance against invalid inputs at JSON decode time.
'tailscale set --relay-server-port' is currently the only input to this
pref, and has always sanitized input to fit within a uint16.
Updates tailscale/corp#34591
Signed-off-by: Jordan Whited <jordan@tailscale.com>
This commit replaces usage of local.Client in net/udprelay with DERPMap
plumbing over the eventbus. This has been a longstanding TODO. This work
was also accelerated by a memory leak in net/http when using
local.Client over long periods of time. So, this commit also addresses
said leak.
Updates #17801
Signed-off-by: Jordan Whited <jordan@tailscale.com>
The lazy init led to confusion and a belief that was something was
wrong. It's reasonable to expect the daemon to listen on the port at the
time it's configured.
Updates tailscale/corp#33094
Signed-off-by: Jordan Whited <jordan@tailscale.com>
Instead of using separate channels to manage the lifecycle of the eventbus
client, use the recently-added eventbus.Monitor, which handles signaling the
processing loop to stop and waiting for it to complete. This allows us to
simplify some of the setup and cleanup code in the relay server.
Updates #15160
Change-Id: Ia1a47ce2e5a31bc8f546dca4c56c3141a40d67af
Signed-off-by: M. J. Fromberger <fromberger@tailscale.com>
ServerEndpoint will be used within magicsock and potentially elsewhere,
which should be possible without needing to import the server
implementation itself.
Updates tailscale/corp#27502
Signed-off-by: Jordan Whited <jordan@tailscale.com>
The relay server is still permanently disabled until node attribute
changes are wired up in a future commit.
Updates tailscale/corp#27502
Signed-off-by: Jordan Whited <jordan@tailscale.com>
