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>
Set Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy: same-origin for all browser requests to
prevent window.location manipulation by malicious origins.
Updates tailscale/corp#28480
Thank you to Triet H.M. Pham for the report.
Signed-off-by: Patrick O'Doherty <patrick@tailscale.com>
For 9dd6af1f6d
Update client/web and safeweb to correctly signal to the csrf middleware
whether the request is being served over TLS. This determines whether
Origin and Referer header checks are strictly enforced. The gorilla
library previously did not enforce these checks due to a logic bug based
on erroneous use of the net/http.Request API. The patch to fix this also
inverts the library behavior to presume that every request is being
served over TLS, necessitating these changes.
Updates tailscale/corp#25340
Signed-off-by: Patrick O'Doherty <patrick@tailscale.com>
Co-authored-by: Patrick O'Doherty <patrick@tailscale.com>
By counting "/" elements in the pattern we catch many scenarios, but not
the root-level handler. If either of the patterns is "/", compare the
pattern length to pick the right one.
Updates https://github.com/tailscale/corp/issues/8027
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lytvynov <awly@tailscale.com>
Extend safeweb.Config with the ability to pass a http.Server that
safeweb will use to server traffic.
Updates corp#8207
Signed-off-by: Patrick O'Doherty <patrick@tailscale.com>
Add the ability to specify Strict-Transport-Security options in response
to BrowserMux HTTP requests in safeweb.
Updates https://github.com/tailscale/corp/issues/23375
Signed-off-by: Patrick O'Doherty <patrick@tailscale.com>
This change is safe (self is still safe, by
definition), and makes the code match the comment.
Updates #cleanup
Signed-off-by: Chris Palmer <cpalmer@tailscale.com>
Refactor the interaction between caller/library when establishing the
HTTP to HTTPS redirects by moving the call to http.Serve into safeweb.
This makes linting for other uses of http.Serve easier without having to
account for false positives created by the old interface.
Updates https://github.com/tailscale/corp/issues/8027
Signed-off-by: Patrick O'Doherty <patrick@tailscale.com>
When both muxes match, and one of them is a wildcard "/" pattern (which
is common in browser muxes), choose the more specific pattern.
If both are non-wildcard matches, there is a pattern overlap, so return
an error.
Updates https://github.com/tailscale/corp/issues/8027
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lytvynov <awly@tailscale.com>
Allow the use of inline styles with safeweb via an opt-in configuration
item. This will append `style-src "self" "unsafe-inline"` to the default
CSP. The `style-src` directive will be used in lieu of the fallback
`default-src "self"` directive.
Updates tailscale/corp#8027
Signed-off-by: Patrick O'Doherty <patrick@tailscale.com>
Updates #cleanup
Change the return type of the safeweb.RedirectHTTP method to a handler
that can be passed directly to http.Serve without any http.HandlerFunc
wrapping necessary.
Signed-off-by: Patrick O'Doherty <patrick@tailscale.com>
Updates https://github.com/tailscale/corp/issues/8027
Safeweb is a wrapper around http.Server & tsnet that encodes some
application security defaults.
Safeweb asks developers to split their HTTP routes into two
http.ServeMuxs for serving browser and API-facing endpoints
repsectively. It then wraps these HTTP routes with the
context-appropriate security controls.
safeweb.Server#Serve will serve the HTTP muxes over the provided
listener. Caller are responsible for creating and tearing down their
application's listeners. Applications being served over HTTPS that wish
to implement HTTP redirects can use the Server#HTTPRedirect handler to
do so.
Signed-off-by: Patrick O'Doherty <patrick@tailscale.com>
