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>
`dnf config-manager addrepo` will fail if the Tailscale repo is already
installed. Without the --overwrite flag, the installer will error out
instead of succeeding like with dnf3.
Fixes#18491
Signed-off-by: Francois Marier <francois@fmarier.org>
Add support for pinning specific Tailscale versions during installation
via the TAILSCALE_VERSION environment variable.
Example usage:
curl -fsSL https://tailscale.com/install.sh | TAILSCALE_VERSION=1.88.4 sh
Fixes#17776
Signed-off-by: Raj Singh <raj@tailscale.com>
Most /etc/os-release files set the VERSION_ID to a `MAJOR.MINOR`
string, but we were trying to compare this numerically against a major
version number. I can only assume that Linux Mint used switched from a
plain integer, since shells only do integer comparisons.
This patch extracts a VERSION_MAJOR from the VERSION_ID using
parameter expansion and unifies all the other ad-hoc comparisons to
use it.
Fixes#15841
Signed-off-by: Simon Law <sfllaw@tailscale.com>
Co-authored-by: Xavier <xhienne@users.noreply.github.com>
* Update installer.sh add FreeBSD ver 15
this should fix the issue on https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/16740
Signed-off-by: TheBigBear <471105+TheBigBear@users.noreply.github.com>
* scripts/installer.sh: small indentation change
Signed-off-by: Erisa A <erisa@tailscale.com>
Fixes#16740
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Signed-off-by: TheBigBear <471105+TheBigBear@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Erisa A <erisa@tailscale.com>
Co-authored-by: Erisa A <erisa@tailscale.com>
Ensures default Linux umask 022 for the installer script to
make sure that files created by the installer can be accessed
by other tools, such as apt.
Updates tailscale/tailscale#15133
Signed-off-by: Irbe Krumina <irbe@tailscale.com>
This fixes the installation on newer Fedora versions that use dnf5 as
the 'dnf' binary.
Updates #13828
Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@du.nham.ca>
Change-Id: I39513243c81640fab244a32b7dbb3f32071e9fce
The tailscale package is in the community Alpine repo. Check if it's
commented out in `/etc/apk/repositories` and run `setup-apkrepos -c -1`
if it's not.
Fixes#11263
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lytvynov <awly@tailscale.com>
Extend the `zypper` install to import importing the GPG key used to sign
the repository packages.
Updates #11635
Signed-off-by: Patrick O'Doherty <patrick@tailscale.com>
On Alpine, we add the tailscale service but fail to call start.
This means that tailscale does not start up until the user reboots the machine.
Fixes#11161
Signed-off-by: Keli Velazquez <keli@tailscale.com>
Installer script relies on pkgs.tailscale.com being reachable, both for
checking what Linux distros are supported, but also for actually
downloading repo configuration files, gpg keys and packages themselves.
This change adds a simple reachability check which will print an error
message when pkgs.tailscale.com is not reachable.
Fixes https://github.com/tailscale/corp/issues/8952
Signed-off-by: Anton Tolchanov <anton@tailscale.com>
Every time we change `installer.sh`, run it in a few docker
containers based on different Linux distros, just as a simple test.
Also includes a few changes to the installer script itself to make
installation work in docker:
- install dnf config-manager command before running it
- run zypper in non-interactive mode
- update pacman indexes before installing packages
Updates https://github.com/tailscale/corp/issues/8952
Signed-off-by: Anton Tolchanov <anton@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>
This will ensure that the `tailscale-archive-keyring` Debian package
gets installed by the installer script.
Updates #3151
Signed-off-by: Anton Tolchanov <anton@tailscale.com>
