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>
We need to expand our enviornment information to include info about
the Windows store. Thinking about future plans, it would be nice
to include both the packaging mechanism and the distribution mechanism.
In this PR we change packageTypeWindows to check a new registry value
named MSIDist, and concatenate that value to "msi/" when present.
We also remove vestigial NSIS detection.
Updates https://github.com/tailscale/corp/issues/2790
Signed-off-by: Aaron Klotz <aaron@tailscale.com>
Some editions of Windows server share the same build number as their
client counterpart; we must use an additional field found in the OS
version information to distinguish between them.
Even though "Distro" has Linux connotations, it is the most appropriate
hostinfo field. What is Windows Server if not an alternate distribution
of Windows? This PR populates Distro with "Server" when applicable.
Fixes#11785
Signed-off-by: Aaron Klotz <aaron@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>
You can now install Tailscale on Windows via [Scoop](https://scoop.sh).
This change adds a check to `packageTypeWindows()`, looking at the exe's path, and
checking if it starts with: `C:\User\<NAME>\scoop\apps\tailscale`. If so, it
returns `"scoop"` as the package type.
Fixes: #6988
Signed-off-by: Shayne Sweeney <shayne@tailscale.com>
The MSI installer sets a special sentinel value that we can use to detect it.
I also removed the code that bails out when the installation path is not
`Program Files`, as both the NSIS and MSI installers permit the user to install
to a different path.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Klotz <aaron@tailscale.com>
We replace the cmd.exe invocation with RtlGetNtVersionNumbers for the first
three fields. On Windows 10+, we query for the fourth field which is available
via the registry.
The fourth field is not really documented anywhere; Firefox has been querying
it successfully since Windows 10 was released, so we can be pretty confident in
its longevity at this point.
Fixes https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/1478
Signed-off-by: Aaron Klotz <aaron@tailscale.com>
