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 gets close to all of the remaining ones.
Updates #12912
Change-Id: I9c672bbed2654a6c5cab31e0cbece6c107d8c6fa
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
NetworkMap.Addresses is redundant with the SelfNode.Addresses. This
works towards a TODO to delete NetworkMap.Addresses and replace it
with a method.
This is similar to #9389.
Updates #cleanup
Change-Id: Id000509ca5d16bb636401763d41bdb5f38513ba0
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@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>
This starts to refactor tsdial.Dialer's name resolution to have
different stages: in-memory MagicDNS vs system resolution. A future
change will plug in ExitDNS resolution.
This also plumbs a Dialer into netstack and unexports the dnsMap
internals.
And it removes some of the async AddNetworkMapCallback usage and
replaces it with synchronous updates of the Dialer's netmap
from LocalBackend, since the LocalBackend has the Dialer too.
Updates #3475
Change-Id: Idcb7b1169878c74f0522f5151031ccbc49fe4cb4
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
For now this just deletes the net/socks5/tssocks implementation (and
the DNSMap stuff from wgengine/netstack) and moves it into net/tsdial.
Then initialize a Dialer early in tailscaled, currently only use for the
outbound and SOCKS5 proxies. It will be plumbed more later. Notably, it
needs to get down into the DNS forwarder for exit node DNS forwading
in netstack mode. But it will also absorb all the peerapi setsockopt
and netns Dial and tlsdial complexity too.
Updates #1713
Change-Id: Ibc6d56ae21a22655b2fa1002d8fc3f2b2ae8b6df
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
