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>
So wgengine/router is just the docs + entrypoint + types, and then
underscore importing wgengine/router/osrouter registers the constructors
with the wgengine/router package.
Then tsnet can not pull those in.
Updates #17313
Change-Id: If313226f6987d709ea9193c8f16a909326ceefe7
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
The MacOS client can't set the MTU when creating the tun due to lack
of permissions, so add it to the router config and have MacOS set it
in the callback using a method that it does have permissions for.
Updates #8219
Signed-off-by: Val <valerie@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>
The iOS and macOS networking extension API only exposes a single setter
for the entire routing and DNS configuration, and does not appear to
do any kind of diffing or deltas when applying changes. This results
in spurious "network changed" errors in Chrome, even when the
`OneCGNATRoute` flag from df9ce972c79023e0b0535bffee6afb3d88e61dc3 is
used (because we're setting the same configuration repeatedly).
Since we already keep track of the current routing and DNS configuration
in CallbackRouter, use that to detect if they're actually changing, and
only invoke the platform setter if it's actually necessary.
Updates #3102
Signed-off-by: Mihai Parparita <mihai@tailscale.com>
