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>
We are soon going to start assigning shared-in nodes a CGNAT IPv4 in the Hello tailnet when necessary, the same way that normal node shares assign a new IPv4 on conflict.
But Hello wants to display the node's native IPv4, the one it uses in its own tailnet. That IPv4 isn't available anywhere in the netmap today, because it's not normally needed for anything.
We are going to start sending that native IPv4 in the peer node CapMap, only for Hello's netmap responses. This change enables Hello to display that native IPv4 instead, when available.
Updates tailscale/corp#25393
Change-Id: I87480b6d318ab028b41ef149eb3ba618bd7f1e08
Signed-off-by: Brian Palmer <brianp@tailscale.com>
It was moved in f57fa3cbc30e.
Updates tailscale/corp#22748
Change-Id: I19f965e6bded1d4c919310aa5b864f2de0cd6220
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
This updates all source files to use a new standard header for copyright
and license declaration. Notably, copyright no longer includes a date,
and we now use the standard SPDX-License-Identifier header.
This commit was done almost entirely mechanically with perl, and then
some minimal manual fixes.
Updates #6865
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
The io/ioutil package has been deprecated as of Go 1.16 [1]. This commit
replaces the existing io/ioutil functions with their new definitions in
io and os packages.
Reference: https://golang.org/doc/go1.16#ioutil
Signed-off-by: Eng Zer Jun <engzerjun@gmail.com>
I apparently only did HTTP before, not HTTPS.
Updates tailscale/corp#1327
Change-Id: I7d5265a0a25fcab5b142c8c3f21a0920f6cae39f
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
But still support hello.ipn.dev for a bit.
Updates tailscale/corp#1327
Change-Id: Iab59cca0b260d69858af16f4e42677e54f9fe54a
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
They were scattered/duplicated in misc places before.
It can't be in the client package itself for circular dep reasons.
This new package is basically tailcfg but for localhost
communications, instead of to control.
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
