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>
It's an unnecessary nuisance having it. We go out of our way to redact
it in so many places when we don't even need it there anyway.
Updates #12639
Change-Id: I5fc72e19e9cf36caeb42cf80ba430873f67167c3
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
It was disabled in May 2024 in #12205 (9eb72bb51).
This removes the unused symbols.
Updates #188
Updates tailscale/corp#19106
Updates tailscale/corp#19116
Change-Id: I5208b7b750b18226ed703532ed58c4ea17195a8e
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Check that the TPM we have opened is advertised as a 2.0 family device
before using it for state sealing / hardware attestation.
Updates #17622
Signed-off-by: Patrick O'Doherty <patrick@tailscale.com>
Expand TestRedactNetmapPrivateKeys to cover all sub-structs of
NetworkMap and confirm that a) all fields are annotated as private or
public, and b) all private fields are getting redacted.
Updates tailscale/corp#32095
Signed-off-by: Anton Tolchanov <anton@tailscale.com>
For debugging purposes, add a new C2N endpoint returning the current
netmap. Optionally, coordination server can send a new "candidate" map
response, which the client will generate a separate netmap for.
Coordination server can later compare two netmaps, detecting unexpected
changes to the client state.
Updates tailscale/corp#32095
Signed-off-by: Anton Tolchanov <anton@tailscale.com>
So the control plane can delete TXT records more aggressively
after client's done with ACME fetch.
Updates tailscale/corp#15848
Change-Id: I4f1140305bee11ee3eee93d4fec3aef2bd6c5a7e
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
