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>
Previously, if we had a umask set (e.g. 0027) that prevented creating a
world-readable file, /etc/resolv.conf would be created without the o+r
bit and thus other users may be unable to resolve DNS.
Since a umask only applies to file creation, chmod the file after
creation and before renaming it to ensure that it has the appropriate
permissions.
Updates #12609
Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@du.nham.ca>
Change-Id: I2a05d64f4f3a8ee8683a70be17a7da0e70933137
Endeavour OS, at least, uses NetworkManager 1.44.2 and does
not use systemd-resolved behind the scenes at all. If we
find ourselves in that situation, return "direct" not
"systemd-resolved"
Fixes https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/9687
Signed-off-by: Denton Gentry <dgentry@tailscale.com>
Having `127.0.0.53` is not the only way to use `systemd-resolved`. An
alternative way is to enable `libnss_resolve` module, which seems to now
be used by default on Debian 12 bookworm.
Fixes#8549
Signed-off-by: Anton Tolchanov <anton@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 ResolvConfMode property is documented to return how systemd-resolved
is currently managing /etc/resolv.conf. Include that information in the
debug line, when available, to assist in debugging DNS issues.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@du.nham.ca>
Change-Id: I1ae3a257df1d318d0193a8c7f135c458ec45093e
If systemd-resolved is enabled but not running (or not yet running,
such as early boot) and resolv.conf is old/dangling, we weren't
detecting systemd-resolved.
This moves its ping earlier, which will trigger it to start up and
write its file.
Updates #3362 (likely fixes)
Updates #3531 (likely fixes)
Change-Id: I6392944ac59f600571c43b8f7a677df224f2beed
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
There are /etc/resolv.conf files out there where resolvconf wrote
the file but pointed to systemd-resolved as the nameserver.
We're better off handling those as systemd-resolved.
> # Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
> # 127.0.0.53 is the systemd-resolved stub resolver.
> # run "systemd-resolve --status" to see details about the actual nameservers.
Fixes https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/3026
Signed-off-by: Denton Gentry <dgentry@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>
