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>
The existing client metric methods only support incrementing (or
decrementing) a delta value. This new method allows setting the metric
to a specific value.
Updates tailscale/corp#35327
Change-Id: Ia101a4a3005adb9118051b3416f5a64a4a45987d
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
The service was starting after systemd itself, and while this
surprisingly worked for some situations, it broke for others.
Change it to start after a GUI has been initialized.
Updates #17656
Signed-off-by: Claus Lensbøl <claus@tailscale.com>
It's an unnecessary nuisance having it. We go out of our way to redact
it in so many places when we don't even need it there anyway.
Updates #12639
Change-Id: I5fc72e19e9cf36caeb42cf80ba430873f67167c3
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
If users start the application with sudo, DBUS is likely not available
or will not have the correct endpoints. We want to warn users when doing
this.
Closes#17593
Signed-off-by: Claus Lensbøl <claus@tailscale.com>
We already show a message in the menu itself, this just adds it to the
CLI output as well.
Updates #1708
Change-Id: Ia101a4a3005adb9118051b3416f5a64a4a45987d
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
Pass a local.Client to systray.Run, so we can use the existing global
localClient in the cmd/tailscale CLI. Add socket flag to cmd/systray.
Updates #1708
Change-Id: Ia101a4a3005adb9118051b3416f5a64a4a45987d
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
Replace the existing systray_start counter metrics with a
systray_running gauge metrics.
This also adds an IncrementGauge method to local client to parallel
IncrementCounter. The LocalAPI handler supports both, we've just never
added a client method for gauges.
Updates #1708
Change-Id: Ia101a4a3005adb9118051b3416f5a64a4a45987d
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
This shouldn't be necessary, but while we're continuing to figure out
the root cause, this is better than having to restart the app or switch
profiles on the command line.
Updates #15528
Change-Id: Ia101a4a3005adb9118051b3416f5a64a4a45987d
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
Add the golang-image-ico package, which is an incredibly small package
to handle the ICO container format with PNG inside. Some profile photos
look quite pixelated when displayed at this size, but it's better than
nothing, and any Windows support is just a bonus anyway.
Updates #1708
Change-Id: Ia101a4a3005adb9118051b3416f5a64a4a45987d
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
When LocalAPI returns an AccessDeniedError, display a message in the
menu and hide or disable most other menu items. This currently includes
a placeholder KB link which I'll update if we end up using something
different.
I debated whether to change the app icon to indicate an error, but opted
not to since there is actually nothing wrong with the client itself and
Tailscale will continue to function normally. It's just that the systray
app itself is in a read-only state.
Updates #1708
Change-Id: Ia101a4a3005adb9118051b3416f5a64a4a45987d
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
It was moved in f57fa3cbc30e.
Updates tailscale/corp#22748
Change-Id: I19f965e6bded1d4c919310aa5b864f2de0cd6220
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
