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>
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>
I typoed/brainoed in the earlier 358262869176bfddf369517994ac0337712f75e0
Change-Id: Ic198a6f9911f195d9da9fc5259b5784a4b15e5e3
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Currently, comments in resolv.conf cause our parser to fail,
with error messages like:
ParseIP("192.168.0.100 # comment"): unexpected character (at " # comment")
Fix that.
Noticed while looking through logs.
Signed-off-by: Josh Bleecher Snyder <josh@tailscale.com>
In some containers, /etc/resolv.conf is a bind-mount from outside the container.
This prevents renaming to or from /etc/resolv.conf, because it's on a different
filesystem from linux's perspective. It also prevents removing /etc/resolv.conf,
because doing so would break the bind-mount.
If we find ourselves within this environment, fall back to using copy+delete when
renaming to /etc/resolv.conf, and copy+truncate when renaming from /etc/resolv.conf.
Fixes#3000
Co-authored-by: Denton Gentry <dgentry@tailscale.com>
Signed-off-by: David Anderson <danderson@tailscale.com>
This is preliminary work for using the directManager as
part of a wslManager on windows, where in addition to configuring
windows we'll use wsl.exe to edit the linux file system and modify the
system resolv.conf.
The pinholeFS is a little funky, but it's designed to work through
simple unix tools via wsl.exe without invoking bash. I would not have
thought it would stand on its own like this, but it turns out it's
useful for writing a test for the directManager.
Signed-off-by: David Crawshaw <crawshaw@tailscale.com>
