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>
* ipn/ipnlocal,envknob: add some primitives for HA replica cert share.
Add an envknob for configuring
an instance's cert store as read-only, so that it
does not attempt to issue or renew TLS credentials,
only reads them from its cert store.
This will be used by the Kubernetes Operator's HA Ingress
to enable multiple replicas serving the same HTTPS endpoint
to be able to share the same cert.
Also some minor refactor to allow adding more tests
for cert retrieval logic.
Signed-off-by: Irbe Krumina <irbe@tailscale.com>
PR #14771 added support for getting certs from alternate ACME servers, but the
certStore caching mechanism breaks unless you install the CA in system roots,
because we check the validity of the cert before allowing a cache hit, which
includes checking for a valid chain back to a trusted CA. For ease of testing,
allow cert cache hits when the chain is unknown to avoid re-issuing the cert
on every TLS request served. We will still get a cache miss when the cert has
expired, as enforced by a test, and this makes it much easier to test against
non-prod ACME servers compared to having to manage the installation of non-prod
CAs on clients.
Updates #14771
Change-Id: I74fe6593fe399bd135cc822195155e99985ec08a
Signed-off-by: Tom Proctor <tomhjp@users.noreply.github.com>
To avoid duplicate issuances/slowness while the state Secret
contains a mismatched cert and key.
Updates tailscale/tailscale#15134
Updates tailscale/corp#24795
Signed-off-by: Irbe Krumina <irbe@tailscale.com>
Adds an envknob setting for changing the client's ACME directory URL.
This allows testing cert issuing against LE's staging environment, as
well as enabling local-only test environments, which is useful for
avoiding the production rate limits in test and development scenarios.
Fixes#14761
Change-Id: I191c840c0ca143a20e4fa54ea3b2f9b7cbfc889f
Signed-off-by: Tom Proctor <tomhjp@users.noreply.github.com>
While our `shouldStartDomainRenewal` check is correct, `getCertPEM`
would always bail if the existing cert is not expired. Add the same
`shouldStartDomainRenewal` check to `getCertPEM` to make it proceed with
renewal when existing certs are still valid but should be renewed.
The extra check is expensive (ARI request towards LetsEncrypt), so cache
the last check result for 1hr to not degrade `tailscale serve`
performance.
Also, asynchronous renewal is great for `tailscale serve` but confusing
for `tailscale cert`. Add an explicit flag to `GetCertPEM` to force a
synchronous renewal for `tailscale cert`.
Fixes#8725
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lytvynov <awly@tailscale.com>
Instead of renewing certificates based on whether or not they're expired
at a fixed 14-day period in the future, renew based on whether or not
we're more than 2/3 of the way through the certificate's lifetime. This
properly handles shorter-lived certificates without issue.
Updates #8204
Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@du.nham.ca>
Change-Id: I5e82a9cadc427c010d04ce58c7f932e80dd571ea
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>
Leave only the HTTP/auth bits in localapi.
Change-Id: I8e23fb417367f1e0e31483e2982c343ca74086ab
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
