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 improves our test coverage of the Bootstrap() method, especially
around catching AUMs that shouldn't pass validation.
Updates #cleanup
Change-Id: Idc61fcbc6daaa98c36d20ec61e45ce48771b85de
Signed-off-by: Alex Chan <alexc@tailscale.com>
Previously a TKA compaction would only run when a node starts, which means a long-running node could use unbounded storage as it accumulates ever-increasing amounts of TKA state. This patch changes TKA so it runs a compaction after every sync.
Updates https://github.com/tailscale/corp/issues/33537
Change-Id: I91df887ea0c5a5b00cb6caced85aeffa2a4b24ee
Signed-off-by: Alex Chan <alexc@tailscale.com>
The revoke-keys command allows nodes with tailnet lock keys
to collaborate to erase the use of a compromised key, and remove trust
in it.
Signed-off-by: Tom DNetto <tom@tailscale.com>
Updates ENG-1848
This adds an initial and intentionally minimal configuration for
golang-ci, fixes the issues reported, and adds a GitHub Action to check
new pull requests against this linter configuration.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@du.nham.ca>
Change-Id: I8f38fbc315836a19a094d0d3e986758b9313f163
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 allows direct use of NLPublic with tka.Authority.KeyTrusted() and
similar without using tricks like converting the return value of Verifier.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Dewhurst <adrian@tailscale.com>
Updates #5435
Based on the discussion in #5435, we can better support transactional data models
by making the underlying storage layer a parameter (which can be specialized for
the request) rather than a long-lived member of Authority.
Now that Authority is just an instantaneous snapshot of state, we can do things
like provide idempotent methods and make it cloneable, too.
Signed-off-by: Tom DNetto <tom@tailscale.com>
It doesn't make a ton of sense for disablement to be communicated as an AUM, because
any failure in the AUM or chain mechanism will mean disablement wont function.
Instead, tracking of the disablement secrets remains inside the state machine, but
actual disablement and communication of the disablement secret is done by the caller.
Signed-off-by: Tom DNetto <tom@tailscale.com>
Following the pattern elsewhere, we create a new tka-specific types package for the types
that need to couple between the serialized structure types, and tka.
Signed-off-by: Tom DNetto <tom@tailscale.com>
