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>
https://portsmouthbrewery.com/shilling-scale/
Any scale that includes "wee heavy" is a scale worth including.
Updates #words
Change-Id: I85fd7a64cf22e14f686f1093a220cb59c43e46ba
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
If I have to add a tail, or a scale, mate, I will add it.
Updates tailscale/corp#14698
Signed-off-by: Charlotte Brandhorst-Satzkorn <charlotte@tailscale.com>
These birds have been visually identified as having tails. Science
prevails.
Updates tailscale/corp#9599
Signed-off-by: Charlotte Brandhorst-Satzkorn <charlotte@tailscale.com>
It's no conspiracy that I love learning about new words.
Updates tailscale/corp#14698
Signed-off-by: Charlotte Brandhorst-Satzkorn <charlotte@tailscale.com>
If you start hearing everything in auto-tune for the rest of the day,
I take no responsibility for it.
Signed-off-by: Charlotte Brandhorst-Satzkorn <charlotte@tailscale.com>
Hey team! I've been diving deep into the code ocean for the past few
hours, tackling those sneaky race conditions that were threatening our
database. It was quite the crabby situation, but fear not! It's friday
and I've emerged and I'm ready to shell-ebrate with some punny word
additions. 🎉
This commit introduces a shell-shocking array of crustaceans to our word
list. From the lively lobsters to the clever prawns.
Signed-off-by: James Tucker <james@tailscale.com>
Can't have a dupe when the dupe is wrong. Clearly we need to up
our spell checking game. Did anyone say AI?
Signed-off-by: Charlotte Brandhorst-Satzkorn <charlotte@tailscale.com>
I explained this tails/scales list to my 5yo and he looked at me like
it was the most obvious idea ever. Of course we'd make such lists at
work! What else do grown-ups do all day? And then he wouldn't stop
talking about coelacanths and I had no clue what he was saying or how
to spell it until I asked my phone and the phone apparently understood
me and I realized it was a fish and he was helping me? I think?
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
One might argue they have two, but until that hypothesis can be proven
these tails and scales will have to do!
Signed-off-by: Charlotte Brandhorst-Satzkorn <charlotte@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>
After consultation with Tom, it has been agreed that a vibe, or vibes,
can be felt in different quantifiable measures. That makes a vibe, or
vibes, a scale thus it must be immortalized.
Signed-off-by: Charlotte Brandhorst-Satzkorn <charlotte@tailscale.com>
The cute little salak belongs there. It also evens the odds if tails
start a mutiny against scales. Even though they outnumber scales, they
should still know their place. Behind.
Signed-off-by: Pontus Leitzler <leitzler@gmail.com>
What's better than getting a community request?
A community request from another Charlotte!
Bun and hops!
Signed-off-by: Charlotte Brandhorst-Satzkorn <charlotte@tailscale.com>
Months upon months I ponder about this,
Adding new words onto our little lists.
Given our integrity I should not have missed,
Including the creatures from folklore and myth.
Carefully curated, many of them hiss,
Don't forget about the ones hiding in the abyss.
Now they are added, I cannot resist,
Searching for more words for me to enlist.
Signed-off-by: Charlotte Brandhorst-Satzkorn <charlotte@tailscale.com>
Captains log. Stardate 100386.37.
Work is proceeding on the Words list as Tailscalars are forced to scavenge for more taily and scaley things.
Signed-off-by: Charlotte Brandhorst-Satzkorn <charlotte@tailscale.com>
