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>
Step 4 of N. See earlier commits in the series (via the issue) for the
plan.
This adds the missing methods to policyclient.Client and then uses it
everywhere in ipn/ipnlocal and locks it in with a new dep test.
Still plenty of users of the global syspolicy elsewhere in the tree,
but this is a lot of them.
Updates #16998
Updates #12614
Change-Id: I25b136539ae1eedbcba80124de842970db0ca314
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Step 3 in the series. See earlier cc532efc2000 and d05e6dc09e.
This step moves some types into a new leaf "ptype" package out of the
big "settings" package. The policyclient.Client will later get new
methods to return those things (as well as Duration and Uint64, which
weren't done at the time of the earlier prototype).
Updates #16998
Updates #12614
Change-Id: I4d72d8079de3b5351ed602eaa72863372bd474a2
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
For tests (in another repo) that use cgo, we'd like to set CGO_ENABLED=1
explicitly when evaluating cross-compiled deps with "go list".
Updates tailscale/corp#26717
Updates tailscale/corp#26737
Change-Id: Ic21a54379ae91688d2456985068a47e73d04a645
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
This protects against rearranging packages and not catching that a BadDeps
package got moved. That would then effectively remove a test.
Updates #12614
Change-Id: I257f1eeda9e3569c867b7628d5bfb252d3354ba6
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Or unless the new "ts_debug_websockets" build tag is set.
Updates #1278
Change-Id: Ic4c4f81c1924250efd025b055585faec37a5491d
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Some environments would like to remove Tailscale SSH support for the
binary for various reasons when not needed (either for peace of mind,
or the ~1MB of binary space savings).
Updates tailscale/corp#24454
Updates #1278
Updates #12614
Change-Id: Iadd6c5a393992c254b5dc9aa9a526916f96fd07a
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
