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>
When a rotation signature chain reaches a certain size, remove the
oldest rotation signature from the chain before wrapping it in a new
rotation signature.
Since all previous rotation signatures are signed by the same wrapping
pubkey (node's own tailnet lock key), the node can re-construct the
chain, re-signing previous rotation signatures. This will satisfy the
existing certificate validation logic.
Updates #13185
Signed-off-by: Anton Tolchanov <anton@tailscale.com>
Detection of duplicate Network Lock signature chains added in
01847e0123dee3b7a6f9645155da69270f01155e failed to account for chains
originating with a SigCredential signature, which is used for wrapped
auth keys. This results in erroneous removal of signatures that
originate from the same re-usable auth key.
This change ensures that multiple nodes created by the same re-usable
auth key are not getting filtered out by the network lock.
Updates tailscale/corp#19764
Signed-off-by: Anton Tolchanov <anton@tailscale.com>
This change moves handling of wrapped auth keys to the `tka` package and
adds a test covering auth key originating signatures (SigCredential) in
netmap.
Updates tailscale/corp#19764
Signed-off-by: Anton Tolchanov <anton@tailscale.com>
A non-signing node can be allowed to re-sign its new node keys following
key renewal/rotation (e.g. via `tailscale up --force-reauth`). To be
able to do this, node's TLK is written into WrappingPubkey field of the
initial SigDirect signature, signed by a signing node.
The intended use of this field implies that, for each WrappingPubkey, we
typically expect to have at most one active node with a signature
tracing back to that key. Multiple valid signatures referring to the
same WrappingPubkey can occur if a client's state has been cloned, but
it's something we explicitly discourage and don't support:
https://tailscale.com/s/clone
This change propagates rotation details (wrapping public key, a list
of previous node keys that have been rotated out) to netmap processing,
and adds tracking of obsolete node keys that, when found, will get
filtered out.
Updates tailscale/corp#19764
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>
Duplicating this at each layer doesnt make any sense, and is another
invariant where things could go wrong.
Signed-off-by: Tom DNetto <tom@tailscale.com>
This will be needed to support preauth-keys with network lock in the future,
so getting the core mechanics out of the way now.
Signed-off-by: Tom DNetto <tom@tailscale.com>
