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>
Saves 139 KB.
Also Synology support, which I saw had its own large-ish proxy parsing
support on Linux, but support for proxies without Synology proxy
support is reasonable, so I pulled that out as its own thing.
Updates #12614
Change-Id: I22de285a3def7be77fdcf23e2bec7c83c9655593
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Our build system caches files locally and only updates them when something
changes. Since I need to integrate some distsign stuff into the build system
to validate our Windows 7 MSIs, I want to be able to check the cached copy
of a package before downloading a fresh copy from pkgs.
If the signature changes, then obviously the local copy is outdated and we
return an error, at which point we call Download to refresh the package.
Updates https://github.com/tailscale/corp/issues/14334
Signed-off-by: Aaron Klotz <aaron@tailscale.com>
Reimplement `downloadURLToFile` using `distsign.Download` and move all
of the progress reporting logic over there.
Updates #6995
Updates #755
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lytvynov <awly@tailscale.com>
Helper command to verify package signatures, mainly for debugging.
Also fix a copy-paste mistake in error message in distsign.
Updates #8760
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lytvynov <awly@tailscale.com>
Now we have all the commands to generate the key hierarchy and verify
that signing keys were signed correctly:
```
$ ./tool/go run ./cmd/dist gen-key --priv-path root-priv.pem --pub-path root-pub.pem --root
wrote private key to root-priv.pem
wrote public key to root-pub.pem
$ ./tool/go run ./cmd/dist gen-key --priv-path signing-priv.pem --pub-path signing-pub.pem --signing
wrote private key to signing-priv.pem
wrote public key to signing-pub.pem
$ ./tool/go run ./cmd/dist sign-key --root-priv-path root-priv.pem --sign-pub-path signing-pub.pem
wrote signature to signature.bin
$ ./tool/go run ./cmd/dist verify-key-signature --root-pub-path root-pub.pem --sign-pub-path signing-pub.pem --sig-path signature.bin
signature ok
```
Updates #8760
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lytvynov <awly@tailscale.com>
To make key management less error-prone, use different PEM block types
for root and signing keys. As a result, separate out most of the Go code
between root/signing keys too.
Updates #8760
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lytvynov <awly@tailscale.com>
This library is intended for use during release to sign packages which
are then served from pkgs.tailscale.com.
The library is also then used by clients downloading packages for
`tailscale update` where OS package managers / app stores aren't used.
Updates https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/8760
Updates https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/6995
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lytvynov <awly@tailscale.com>
