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>
It has nothing to do with logtail and is confusing named like that.
Updates #cleanup
Updates #17323
Change-Id: Idd34587ba186a2416725f72ffc4c5778b0b9db4a
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
It was moved in f57fa3cbc30e.
Updates tailscale/corp#22748
Change-Id: I19f965e6bded1d4c919310aa5b864f2de0cd6220
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
This gets close to all of the remaining ones.
Updates #12912
Change-Id: I9c672bbed2654a6c5cab31e0cbece6c107d8c6fa
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
This change removes the existing debug-web-client localapi endpoint
and replaces it with functions passed directly to the web.ServerOpts
when constructing a web.ManageServerMode client.
The debug-web-client endpoint previously handled making noise
requests to the control server via the /machine/webclient/ endpoints.
The noise requests must be made from tailscaled, which has the noise
connection open. But, now that the full client is served from
tailscaled, we no longer need to proxy this request over the localapi.
Updates tailscale/corp#14335
Signed-off-by: Sonia Appasamy <sonia@tailscale.com>
Adds a new sync.Mutex field to the webClient struct, rather than
using the general LocalBackend mutex. Since webClientGetOrInit
(previously WebClientInit) gets called on every connection, we
want to avoid holding the lock on LocalBackend just to check if
the server is initialized.
Moves all web_client.go funcs over to using the webClient.mu field.
Updates tailscale/corp#14335
Signed-off-by: Sonia Appasamy <sonia@tailscale.com>
For consistency with the "WebClient" naming of the other functions
here. Also fixed a doc typo.
A #cleanup
Signed-off-by: Sonia Appasamy <sonia@tailscale.com>
This prevents a panic in some cases where WebClientShutdown is called
multiple times.
Updates tailscale/corp#14335
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
The local web client has the same characteristic as tailscale serve, in
that it needs a local listener to allow for connections from the local
machine itself when running in kernel networking mode.
This change renames and adapts the existing serveListener to allow it to
be used by the web client as well.
Updates tailscale/corp#14335
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
Require that requests to servers in manage mode are made to the
Tailscale IP (either ipv4 or ipv6) or quad-100. Also set various
security headers on those responses. These might be too restrictive,
but we can relax them as needed.
Allow requests to /ok (even in manage mode) with no checks. This will be
used for the connectivity check from a login client to see if the
management client is reachable.
Updates tailscale/corp#14335
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
Avoids the need to pipe a web client dev flag through the tailscaled
command.
Updates tailscale/corp#14335
Signed-off-by: Sonia Appasamy <sonia@tailscale.com>
Adds a new Mode to the web server, indicating the specific
scenario the constructed server is intended to be run in. Also
starts filling this from the cli/web and ipn/ipnlocal callers.
From cli/web this gets filled conditionally based on whether the
preview web client node cap is set. If not set, the existing
"legacy" client is served. If set, both a login/lobby and full
management client are started (in "login" and "manage" modes
respectively).
Updates tailscale/corp#14335
Signed-off-by: Sonia Appasamy <sonia@tailscale.com>
Now uses webClientAtomicBool as the source of truth for whether the web
client should be running in tailscaled, with it updated when either the
RunWebClient pref or CapabilityPreviewWebClient node capability changes.
This avoids requiring holding the LocalBackend lock on each call to
ShouldRunWebClient to check for the CapabilityPreviewWebClient value.
Updates tailscale/corp#14335
Signed-off-by: Sonia Appasamy <sonia@tailscale.com>
For consistency and clarity around what the LocalBackend.web field
is used for.
Updates tailscale/corp#14335
Signed-off-by: Sonia Appasamy <sonia@tailscale.com>
