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
---
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>
... in prep for merging the net/interfaces package into net/netmon.
This is a no-op change that updates a bunch of the API signatures ahead of
a future change to actually move things (and remove the type alias)
Updates tailscale/corp#10910
Updates tailscale/corp#18960
Updates #7967
Updates #3299
Change-Id: I477613388f09389214db0d77ccf24a65bff2199c
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
I'm working on moving all network state queries to be on
netmon.Monitor, removing old APIs.
Updates tailscale/corp#10910
Updates tailscale/corp#18960
Updates #7967
Updates #3299
Change-Id: If0de137e0e2e145520f69e258597fb89cf39a2a3
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
When reverse path filtering is in strict mode on Linux, using an exit
node blocks all network connectivity. This change adds a warning about
this to `tailscale status` and the logs.
Example in `tailscale status`:
```
- not connected to home DERP region 22
- The following issues on your machine will likely make usage of exit nodes impossible: [interface "eth0" has strict reverse-path filtering enabled], please set rp_filter=2 instead of rp_filter=1; see https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/3310
```
Example in the logs:
```
2024/02/21 21:17:07 health("overall"): error: multiple errors:
not in map poll
The following issues on your machine will likely make usage of exit nodes impossible: [interface "eth0" has strict reverse-path filtering enabled], please set rp_filter=2 instead of rp_filter=1; see https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/3310
```
Updates #3310
Signed-off-by: Anton Tolchanov <anton@tailscale.com>
This commit updates our IP forwarding parsing logic to allow the less
common but still valid value of `2` to be parsed as `true`, which fixes
an error some users encountered.
Fixes#8375
Signed-off-by: Ross Zurowski <ross@rosszurowski.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>
Combine the code between `LocalBackend.CheckIPForwarding` and
`controlclient.ipForwardingBroken`.
Fixes#4300
Signed-off-by: Maisem Ali <maisem@tailscale.com>
