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>
Now cmd/derper doesn't depend on iptables, nftables, and netlink code :)
But this is really just a cleanup step I noticed on the way to making
tsnet applications able to not link all the OS router code which they
don't use.
Updates #17313
Change-Id: Ic7b4e04e3a9639fd198e9dbeb0f7bae22a4a47a9
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
The AddSNATRuleForDst rule was adding a new rule each time it was called including:
- if a rule already existed
- if a rule matching the destination, but with different desired source already existed
This was causing issues especially for the in-progress egress HA proxies work,
where the rules are now refreshed more frequently, so more redundant rules
were being created.
This change:
- only creates the rule if it doesn't already exist
- if a rule for the same dst, but different source is found, delete it
- also ensures that egress proxies refresh firewall rules
if the node's tailnet IP changes
Updates tailscale/tailscale#13406
Signed-off-by: Irbe Krumina <irbe@tailscale.com>
This PR bumps iptables to a newer version that has a function to detect
'NotExists' errors and uses that function to determine whether errors
received on iptables rule and chain clean up are because the rule/chain
does not exist- if so don't log the error.
Updates corp#19336
Signed-off-by: Irbe Krumina <irbe@tailscale.com>
This allows using the fake runner in different packages
that need to manage filter rules.
Updates #cleanup
Signed-off-by: Maisem Ali <maisem@tailscale.com>
Add an explicit accept rule for input to the tun interface, as a mirror
to the explicit rule to accept output from the tun interface.
The rule matches any packet in to our tun interface and accepts it, and
the rule is positioned and prioritized such that it should be evaluated
prior to conventional ufw/iptables/nft rules.
Updates #391Fixes#7332
Updates #9084
Signed-off-by: James Tucker <james@tailscale.com>
This change is introducing new netfilterRunner interface and moving iptables manipulation to a lower leveled iptables runner.
For #391
Signed-off-by: KevinLiang10 <kevinliang@tailscale.com>
