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>
Importing the ~deprecated golang.org/x/exp/maps as "xmaps" to not
shadow the std "maps" was getting ugly.
And using slices.Collect on an iterator is verbose & allocates more.
So copy (x)maps.Keys+Values into our slicesx package instead.
Updates #cleanup
Updates #12912
Updates #14514 (pulled out of that change)
Change-Id: I5e68d12729934de93cf4a9cd87c367645f86123a
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
And update a few callers as examples of motivation. (there are a
couple others, but these are the ones where it's prettier)
Updates #cleanup
Change-Id: Ic8c5cb7af0a59c6e790a599136b591ebe16d38eb
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
The standard library includes these for strings and byte slices,
but it lacks similar functions for generic slices of comparable types.
Although they are not as commonly used, these functions are useful
in scenarios such as working with field index sequences (i.e., []int)
via reflection.
Updates #12687
Signed-off-by: Nick Khyl <nickk@tailscale.com>
We had this in a different repo, but moving it here, as this a more
fitting package.
Updates #cleanup
Change-Id: I5fb9b10e465932aeef5841c67deba4d77d473d57
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
For use in corp, where we appear to have re-implemented this in a few
places with varying signatures.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@du.nham.ca>
Change-Id: Id863a87e674f3caa87945519be8e09650e9c1d76
Then use it in tailcfg which had it duplicated a couple times.
I think we have it a few other places too.
And use slices.Equal in wgengine/router too. (found while looking for callers)
Updates #cleanup
Change-Id: If5350eee9b3ef071882a3db29a305081e4cd9d23
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Now that we're using rand.Shuffle in a few locations, create a generic
shuffle function and use it instead. While we're at it, move the
interleaveSlices function to the same package for use.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@du.nham.ca>
Change-Id: I0b00920e5b3eea846b6cedc30bd34d978a049fd3
