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>
As noted in #16048, the ./ssh/tailssh package failed to build on
Android, because GOOS=android also matches the "linux" build
tag. Exclude Android like iOS is excluded from macOS (darwin).
This now works:
$ GOOS=android go install ./ipn/ipnlocal ./ssh/tailssh
The original PR at #16048 is also fine, but this stops the problem
earlier.
Updates #16048
Change-Id: Ie4a6f6966a012e510c9cb11dd0d1fa88c48fac37
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
This adds a new generic result type (motivated by golang/go#70084) to
try it out, and uses it in the new lineutil package (replacing the old
lineread package), changing that package to return iterators:
sometimes over []byte (when the input is all in memory), but sometimes
iterators over results of []byte, if errors might happen at runtime.
Updates #12912
Updates golang/go#70084
Change-Id: Iacdc1070e661b5fb163907b1e8b07ac7d51d3f83
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Since the tailscaled binaries that we distribute are static and don't
link cgo, we previously wouldn't fetch group IDs that are returned via
NSS. Try shelling out to the 'id' command, similar to how we call
'getent', to detect such cases.
Updates #11682
Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@du.nham.ca>
Change-Id: I9bdc938bd76c71bc130d44a97cc2233064d64799
This package is a wrapper for os/user that handles non-cgo builds,
gokrazy and user shells.
Updates tailscale/corp#15405
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lytvynov <awly@tailscale.com>
Max username length is increased to 256 on linux to match /usr/include/bits/local_lim.h
Fixes#8277
Signed-off-by: Derek Burdick <derek-burdick@users.noreply.github.com>
58ab66ec51f1963fbee302c75ad0017d81d37884 added LDAP support
for #4945 by shelling out to getdent.
It was supposed to fall back to the old method when getdent wasn't
found, but some variable name confusion (uid vs username) meant the
old path wasn't calling the right lookup function (user.LookupId
instead of user.Lookup).
Which meant that changed probably also broke FreeBSD and macOS SSH
support in addition to the reported OpenWRT regression.
The gokrazy support didn't look right either.
Fixes#8180
Change-Id: I273bbe96fe98b2517fbf0335fd476b483c051554
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
The previous commit 58ab66e added ssh/tailssh/user.go as part of
working on #4945. So move some more user-related code over to it.
Updates #cleanup
Change-Id: I24de66df25ffb8f867e1a0a540d410f9ef16d7b0
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
