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>
QNAP now requires builds to be signed with an HSM.
This removes support for signing with a local keypair.
This adds support for signing with a Google Cloud hosted key.
The key should be an RSA key with protection level `HSM` and that uses PSS padding and a SHA256 digest.
The GCloud project, keyring and key name are passed in as command-line arguments.
The GCloud credentials and the PEM signing certificate are passed in as Base64-encoded command-line arguments.
Updates tailscale/corp#23528
Signed-off-by: Percy Wegmann <percy@tailscale.com>
Creates new QNAP builder target, which builds go binaries then uses
docker to build into QNAP packages. Much of the docker/script code
here is pulled over from https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-qpkg,
with adaptation into our builder structures.
The qnap/Tailscale folder contains static resources needed to build
Tailscale qpkg packages, and is an exact copy of the existing folder
in the tailscale-qpkg repo.
Builds can be run with:
```
sudo ./tool/go run ./cmd/dist build qnap
```
Updates tailscale/tailscale-qpkg#135
Signed-off-by: Sonia Appasamy <sonia@tailscale.com>
Update logs for synology builds to more clearly callout which variant
is being built. The two existing variants are:
1. Sideloaded (can be manual installed on a device by anyone)
2. Package center distribution (by the tailscale team)
Updates #cleanup
Signed-off-by: Sonia Appasamy <sonia@tailscale.com>
Add `dist.Signer` hook which can arbitrarily sign linux/synology
artifacts. Plumb it through in `cmd/dist` and remove existing tarball
signing key. Distsign signing will happen on a remote machine, not using
a local key.
Updates #755
Updates #8760
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lytvynov <awly@tailscale.com>
Plumb a signing callback function to `unixpkgs.rpmTarget` to allow
signing RPMs. This callback is optional and RPMs will build unsigned if
not set, just as before.
Updates https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/1882
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lytvynov <awly@tailscale.com>
Pass an optional PEM-encoded ECDSA key to `cmd/dist` to sign all built
tarballs. The signature is stored next to the tarball with a `.sig`
extension.
Tested this with an `openssl`-generated key pair and verified the
resulting signature.
Updates #8760
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lytvynov <awly@tailscale.com>
