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>
This completes the migration to setting up authentication state in the
client first before fetching any node data or rendering the client view.
Notable changes:
- `authorizeRequest` is now only enforced on `/api/*` calls (with the
exception of /api/auth, which is handled early because it's needed to
initially setup auth, particularly for synology)
- re-separate the App and WebClient components to ensure that auth is
completed before moving on
- refactor platform auth (synology and QNAP) to fit into this new
structure. Synology no longer returns redirect for auth, but returns
authResponse instructing the client to fetch a SynoToken
Updates tailscale/corp#14335
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
Adds new LoginOnly server option and swaps out API handler depending
on whether running in login mode or full web client mode.
Also includes some minor refactoring to the synology/qnap authorization
logic to allow for easier sharing between serveLoginAPI and serveAPI.
Updates tailscale/corp#14335
Signed-off-by: Sonia Appasamy <sonia@tailscale.com>
We already had a path on the web client server struct, but hadn't
plumbed it through to the CLI. Add that now and use it for Synology and
QNAP instead of hard-coding the path. (Adding flag for QNAP is
tailscale/tailscale-qpkg#112) This will allow supporting other
environments (like unraid) without additional changes to the client/web
package.
Also fix a small bug in unraid handling to only include the csrf token
on POST requests.
Updates tailscale/corp#13775
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
Synology and QNAP both run the web client as a CGI script. The old web
client didn't care too much about requests paths, since there was only a
single GET and POST handler. The new client serves assets on different
paths, so now we need to care.
First, enforce that the CGI script is always accessed from its full
path, including a trailing slash (e.g. /cgi-bin/tailscale/index.cgi/).
Then, strip that prefix off before passing the request along to the main
serve handler. This allows for properly serving both static files and
the API handler in a CGI environment. Also add a CGIPath option to allow
other CGI environments to specify a custom path.
Finally, update vite and one "api/data" call to no longer assume that we
are always serving at the root path of "/".
Updates tailscale/corp#13775
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
Add separate server methods for synology and qnap, and enforce
authentication and authorization checks before calling into the actual
serving handlers. This allows us to remove all of the auth logic from
those handlers, since all requests will already be authenticated by that
point.
Also simplify the Synology token redirect handler by using fetch.
Remove the SynologyUser from nodeData, since it was never used in the
frontend anyway.
Updates tailscale/corp#13775
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
This commit doesn't change any of the logic, but just organizes the code
a little to prepare for future changes.
Updates tailscale/corp#13775
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
