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>
To write the init script.
And fix the JetKVM detection to work during early boot while the filesystem
and modules are still being loaded; it wasn't being detected on early boot
and then tailscaled was failing to start because it didn't know it was on JetKVM
and didn't modprobe tun.
Updates #16524
Change-Id: I0524ca3abd7ace68a69af96aab4175d32c07e116
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
This adds a new generic result type (motivated by golang/go#70084) to
try it out, and uses it in the new lineutil package (replacing the old
lineread package), changing that package to return iterators:
sometimes over []byte (when the input is all in memory), but sometimes
iterators over results of []byte, if errors might happen at runtime.
Updates #12912
Updates golang/go#70084
Change-Id: Iacdc1070e661b5fb163907b1e8b07ac7d51d3f83
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Similar to Arch support, use the latest version info from the official
`apk` repo and don't offer explicit track or version switching.
Add detection for Alpine Linux in version/distro along the way.
Updates #6995
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lytvynov <awly@tailscale.com>
WSL has started to set the eth0 default route interface default to 1280
MTU, which is too low to carry 1280 byte packets from tailscale0 once
wrapped in WireGuard. The change down to 1280 is very likely smaller
than necessary for almost all users. We can not easily determine the
ideal MTU, but if all the preconditions match, we raise the MTU to 1360,
which is just enough for Tailscale traffic to work.
Updates #4833
Updates #7346
Signed-off-by: James Tucker <james@tailscale.com>
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>
Resolves a TODO in the code noted while discussing QNAP defaults.
Tested on DSM6 and DSM7.
Change-Id: Icce03ff41fafd7b3a358cfee16f2ed13d5cc3c5d
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
The fallthrough happened to work in controlclient already due to the
/etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME default, but make it explicit so it
doesn't look like an accident.
Also add it to version/distro, even though nothing needs it yet.
For now. Get it working again so it's not stuck on 0.98.
Subnet relay can come later.
Updates #451
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
