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>
* util/linuxfw: fix delete snat rule
This pr is fixing the bug that in nftables mode setting snat-subnet-routes=false doesn't
delete the masq rule in nat table.
Updates #15661
Signed-off-by: Kevin Liang <kevinliang@tailscale.com>
* change index arithmetic in test to chunk
Signed-off-by: Kevin Liang <kevinliang@tailscale.com>
* reuse rule creation function in rule delete
Signed-off-by: Kevin Liang <kevinliang@tailscale.com>
* add test for deleting the masq rule
Signed-off-by: Kevin Liang <kevinliang@tailscale.com>
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Signed-off-by: Kevin Liang <kevinliang@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>
* util/linuxfw: fix IPv6 NAT availability check for nftables
When running firewall in nftables mode,
there is no need for a separate NAT availability check
(unlike with iptables, there are no hosts that support nftables, but not IPv6 NAT - see tailscale/tailscale#11353).
This change fixes a firewall NAT availability check that was using the no-longer set ipv6NATAvailable field
by removing the field and using a method that, for nftables, just checks that IPv6 is available.
Updates tailscale/tailscale#12008
Signed-off-by: Irbe Krumina <irbe@tailscale.com>
We were previously using the netlink API to see if there are chains/rules that
already exist. This works fine in environments where there is either full
nftable support or no support at all. However, we have identified certain
environments which have partial nftable support and the only feasible way of
detecting such an environment is to try to create some of the chains that we
need.
This adds a check to create a dummy postrouting chain which is immediately
deleted. The goal of the check is to ensure we are able to use nftables and
that it won't error out later. This check is only done in the path where we
detected that the system has no preexisting nftable rules.
Updates #5621
Updates #8555
Updates #8762
Signed-off-by: Maisem Ali <maisem@tailscale.com>
These tests were broken at HEAD. CI currently does not run these
as root, will figure out how to do that in a followup.
Updates #5621
Updates #8555
Updates #8762
Signed-off-by: Maisem Ali <maisem@tailscale.com>
Just a refactor to consolidate the firewall detection logic in a single
package so that it can be reused in a later commit by containerboot.
Updates #9310
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 commit tries to mimic the way iptables-nft work with the filewall rules. We
follow the convention of using tables like filter, nat and the conventional
chains, to make our nftables implementation work with ufw.
Updates: #391
Signed-off-by: KevinLiang10 <kevinliang@tailscale.com>
This commit adds nftable rule injection for tailscaled. If tailscaled is
started with envknob TS_DEBUG_USE_NETLINK_NFTABLES = true, the router
will use nftables to manage firewall rules.
Updates: #391
Signed-off-by: KevinLiang10 <kevinliang@tailscale.com>
