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>
This commit increases gVisor's TCP max send (4->6MiB) and receive
(4->8MiB) buffer sizes on all platforms except iOS. These values are
biased towards higher throughput on high bandwidth-delay product paths.
The iperf3 results below demonstrate the effect of this commit between
two Linux computers with i5-12400 CPUs. 100ms of RTT latency is
introduced via Linux's traffic control network emulator queue
discipline.
The first set of results are from commit f0230ce prior to TCP buffer
resizing.
gVisor write direction:
Test Complete. Summary Results:
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 180 MBytes 151 Mbits/sec 0 sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.10 sec 179 MBytes 149 Mbits/sec receiver
gVisor read direction:
Test Complete. Summary Results:
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5] 0.00-10.10 sec 337 MBytes 280 Mbits/sec 20 sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 323 MBytes 271 Mbits/sec receiver
The second set of results are from this commit with increased TCP
buffer sizes.
gVisor write direction:
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 297 MBytes 249 Mbits/sec 0 sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.10 sec 297 MBytes 247 Mbits/sec receiver
gVisor read direction:
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5] 0.00-10.10 sec 501 MBytes 416 Mbits/sec 17 sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 485 MBytes 407 Mbits/sec receiver
Updates #9707
Updates tailscale/corp#22119
Signed-off-by: Jordan Whited <jordan@tailscale.com>
